LEGEND OF THE LOST (1957) ** In which the question isn't answered, "How do you have a John Wayne movie without a shoot-out?" When you get right down to it, there really isn't much else for him to do, especially since Qaddafi wasn't in power yet. So he makes a pass at Sophia Loren, she hits him in the cowboy hat with a frying pan, and they spend a long time wandering around in the desert with Rossano Brazzi. They are so out there that they speak of Timbuktu as civilization, and they don't even have a camel! There's not enough alcohol to go around and eventually they wallow around in bat shit looking for treasure. He's had better lines and she's had better hairstyles and even more sympathetic characters, but they've both got enough goin' on to wave down a wagon train of Bedouins and at least he doesn't put his hands all over her "like bugs."
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