The Jewel of the Nile
- Michael Douglas: Jack T. Colton
- Kathleen Turner: Joan Wilder
- Danny DeVito: Ralph
- Spiros FOCAS: Omar
- Avner Eisenberg: The Jewel of the Nile
- Paul David Magid: Tarak
- Howard Jay Patterson: Barak
- Randall Edwin Nelson: Karak
- Samuel Ross Williams: Arak
- Hamid Fillali: Rashid
- Daniel Peacock: Rock Promotion
- Holland Taylor: Gloria
- Guy Cuevas: Le Vasseur
- Peter DePalma: missionary
- Mark Daly Richards: Pirate
Romancing The Jewel of the Nile (1985 ) is an American comedy film from 1985 and the continuation of the adventure film Romancing the Stone. It was directed by Lewis Teague, the main roles are played as in the first part of Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito and Kathleen Turner.
Action
After her adventures in Colombia are a writer Joan Wilder and her friend, the adventurer Jack Colton, sailed on her yacht Angelina around the world for half a year. While Jack, however, enjoys the fulfillment of his ambitions, Joan longs for her home and after a serious relationship. When the invitation of the North African state 's Omar to write his biography promises a change, she does not hesitate. She and Jack go their separate ways for the time being, but as this his old opponent Ralph is reunited, and shortly thereafter the Angelina is blown up by Omar's minions, he follows Joan to Africa. Ralph followed him, because he has heard of the mysterious " Jewel of the Nile ", Omar said to have stolen.
Joan, meanwhile, need not take long to determine that Omar is a power-hungry dictator who wants to stylize by a souped-up with special effects religious ceremony to the Divine Savior of his people. She tries to gather evidence for his military plans of conquest, but is caught and imprisoned. So she meets an imprisoned cleric who turns out to be the jewel of the Nile, a saint who is to redeem the people. The two escape together and meet soon to Jack and Ralph. In a true orgy of destruction they flee the city in the desert.
After a long journey through rocky wasteland, countless quarrels and participating in a Nubian wedding party they eventually reach a train, with which they want to travel to the religious ceremony according to Kadir. However, they Omar intercepts and Jack and Joan wants to die in a bizarre case. Jack calls him for a psychopath, only to learn that the idea for the event from one of Joan's books comes from.
At the last second - and rather unwillingly - can Ralph rescue them. With the jewel and his followers, they can interrupt the ceremony and Omar expose as impostors. This then tries again to kill them, but crashes at the end, even in the flames. In the end, Jack and Joan are married by the gem and put their sailing trip around the world continues.
Reviews
The reviews of On the hunt for the jewel of the Nile were not as positive as for the first part, many missing its originality and wit, as well as numerous logic errors have been criticized. Others found, however, that the film developed too little own ideas.
Roger Ebert quoted in the " Chicago Sun-Times " of 11 December 1985, the Information, Kathleen Turner would only because of their contractual obligations play a role in the film. He likened the pair Turner and Douglas with the film pair Diane Keaton and Woody Allen, the film he likened to Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark, from the at least one scene should be borrowed.
Background and Trivia
The costumes for Kathleen Turner was designed by the Italian fashion designer Nino Cerruti.