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- Omar Khalifa recruits the American novelist Joan Wilder to write his biography and presents himself as an enlightened ruler while governing as a dictator. At a ceremony in the city of Kadir he uses staged special effects to have himself proclaimed leader of the Arab world, until the holy man Al-Julhara walks through the fire unharmed.
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
film · 1985 adventure comedy film by Lewis Teague
- Director
- Lewis Teague
- Countries
- United States, France
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- 20th Century Studios, Netflix, Disney+
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- romantic comedy, treasure hunt film, action film
- Cast
- Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Spiros Focás