On the hunt for the jewel of the Nile

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Movie
German title On the hunt for the jewel of the Nile
Original title The Jewel of the Nile
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Lewis Teague
script Mark Rosenthal ,
Lawrence Konner
production Michael Douglas ,
Joel Douglas
music Jack Nitzsche
camera Jan de Bont
cut Peter Boita ,
Michael Ellis
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
On the hunt for the green diamond

The Jewel of the Nile is an American comedy film from the year 1985 and the continuation of the adventure film Romancing the Stone . Directed by Lewis Teague , the leading roles played as in the first part Michael Douglas , Danny DeVito and Kathleen Turner .

action

After their adventure in Colombia , writer Joan Wilder and her friend, the adventurer Jack Colton, sailed around the world with their yacht Angelina for six months. While Jack enjoys the fulfillment of his lifelong dream, Joan longs for her home and a more serious relationship. When the North African statesman Omar's invitation to write his biography promises a change, she doesn't hesitate. She and Jack go their separate ways for the time being, but when he meets his old opponent Ralph and shortly afterwards Angelina is blown up by Omar's lackeys, he follows Joan to Africa. Ralph follows after hearing about the mysterious “Jewel of the Nile” that Omar is said to have stolen.

It doesn't take Joan long to realize that Omar is a power-hungry dictator who wants to make himself the divine savior of his people through a special effects pimped up religious ceremony. She is caught and imprisoned while trying to gather evidence of his military conquest plans. So she meets an imprisoned cleric who turns out to be “the jewel of the Nile”, a saint who is supposed to redeem the people. The two can escape together and soon meet Jack and Ralph. In a true orgy of destruction, they flee the city into the desert.

After a long journey through rocky wastelands, countless arguments and participation in a Nubian wedding party, they finally reach a train that they want to take to the religious ceremony in Kadir. However, Omar intercepts them and wants Jack and Joan to die in a bizarre trap. Jack calls him a psychopath for this, only to find out that the idea for the trap comes from one of Joan's books.

At the last second - and rather involuntarily - Ralph can save the two. The "jewel" and his followers, they can disrupt the ceremony and Omar as impostors expose. He then tries again to kill her, but in the end falls himself into the flames. Jack and Joan are married by the "jewel" and continue their sailing tour around the world.

synchronization

The German dubbing was commissioned by Berliner Synchron , and Lutz Riedel was responsible for the dialogue direction and the German dialogue book .

role actor speaker
Jack T. Colton Michael Douglas Volker Brandt
Joan Wilder Kathleen Turner Traudel Haas
Ralph Danny DeVito Gerd Duwner
Omar Spiros Focás Claus Wilcke
The jewel of the Nile Avner Eisenberg Reinhard Kuhnert
Tarak Paul David Magid Lutz Riedel
Rasheed Hamid Fillali Helmut Krauss
Rock promoter Daniel Peacock Joachim Tennstedt
Gloria Holland Taylor Bettina Schön

Reviews

The reviews of the film were not as positive as those of the first part, many missed its originality and wit, and numerous logic errors were criticized. Others, however, found that the film did not develop enough of its own ideas.

Roger Ebert quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times of December 11, 1985 the information that Kathleen Turner would only play a part in the film because of her contractual obligations. He compared the couple Turner and Douglas with the film couple Diane Keaton and Woody Allen , the film he compared with Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark , from which at least one scene is said to be borrowed.

"Fast-paced and full of action, with sympathetic actors, but without the lightness and self-ironic note of the predecessor."

- Lexicon of international film

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.

Trivia

The costumes for Kathleen Turner were designed by the Italian fashion designer Nino Cerruti .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age designation for On the hunt for the jewel of the Nile . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ Synchronkartei.de
  3. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
  4. ↑ On the hunt for the jewel of the Nile. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 24, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ https://www.fbw-filmbeval.com/film/auf_der_jagd_nach_dem_juwel_vom_nil