Caravans | |
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Directed by | James Fargo |
Produced by | Elmo Williams |
Written by | Nancy Voyles Crawford, Thomas A. McMahon and Lorraine Williams(screenplay) |
Starring | Anthony Quinn Michael Sarrazin Christopher Lee |
Music by | Mike Batt |
Cinematography | Douglas Slocombe |
Editing by | Richard Marden |
Studio | FIDCI |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date(s) | November 2, 1978 |
Running time | 127 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English--Persian |
Caravans is a 1978 Iranian-American film directed by James Fargo based on the novel by James A. Michener. Nancy Voyles Crawford wrote the screenplay. The movie was shot in Iran.
The story is set in fictional country in Middle East (probably Afghanistan and southeast Iran) in 1948. Mark Miller is stationed at the American Embassy and is given the assignment of an investigation to find a young woman, Ellen Jasper, also from the United States, who has disappeared after her marriage to Colonel Nazrullah several months previously.
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