Subtitle The Wind And The Lion -

The actual incident was settled through a peaceful ransom payment by the Sultan, whereas the movie depicts a climactic battle involving U.S. Marines and German forces.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt , seeking re-election, uses the incident to demonstrate American military power, coining the phrase "Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead!". subtitle The Wind and the Lion

Set in 1904 Morocco, the story centers on the kidnapping of an American widow, , and her children by Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli , a charismatic Berber chieftain. The actual incident was settled through a peaceful

The film is a highly fictionalized "romanticization" of the real-life of 1904. subtitle The Wind and the Lion