The Adventurers

This overblown, overlong epic, adapted from Harold Robbins' best-selling novel that describes every corrupt person who counts in South America, wallows in human depravity. The film wanders after the life and times of a South American playboy, played by Fehmiu (a Yugoslavian actor whose speach, annoyingly garbled, is nearly unintelligible). He destroys everything and everybody in his path, all because--and the rationale is jammed down the viewer's throat--he suffered a trauma as a child. The trauma is produced during a revolution when Fehmiu witnesses the murder of his mother by bandits. His father, Rey, joins the revolutionaries, and once the revolutionary leader t...