IMDb > Caravans (1978)

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5.8/10   148 votes
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Director:
Writers:
James Michener (novel)
Nancy Voyles Crawford (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
2 November 1978 (USA) more
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
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Watched it being filmed more (5 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Anthony Quinn ... Zulffiqar
Michael Sarrazin ... Mark Miller

Christopher Lee ... Sardar Khan
Jennifer O'Neill ... Ellen Jasper
Joseph Cotten ... Crandall

Behrouz Vossoughi ... Nazrullah
Barry Sullivan ... Richardson
Jeremy Kemp ... Dr. Smythe
Duncan Quinn ... Moheb
Behrouz Gramian ... Peasant Boy (as Behrooz Gueramian)
Mohamad Ali Keshavarz ... Shakkur
Parviz Gharib-Afshar ... Nur Mohammad
Fahimeh Amouzandeh ... Mira
Mohammad Kahnemout ... Maftoon (as Mohammad Taghi Kahnemout)
Khosrow Tabatabai ... Dancing Boy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
127 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The final cinema film of Barry Sullivan. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Lionpower from MGM (1967) more

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Watched it being filmed, 18 July 2005
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Author: PTCfromDE from Santa Barbara, CA

I actually watched this movie being filmed while living in Isfahan, Iran in the last 1970s. My father worked for an American company, and I was in high school---there were actually 10,000 Americans living in Isfahan, (including families with children) before the revolution got underway and the evacuations of non-essential personnel started.

I haven't seen the movie since the time it first came out, but I do remember that (a) the score was quite good (b) although the plot of the original Michener novel dealt with Afghanistan, and although the adaptation may have put the "location" of the action near the Pakistani border, the filming of exterior sequences took place within an hour's drive of Isfahan, VERY far from the Pakistani border.

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Clearly takes place in Baluchistan, Iran -not a generic Mid East country solinvictus93
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