'A couple of men and a dame are a strain on any civilisation! ' Timbuktu is the background for this dazzlingly photographed but stodgy action yarn about the search for a lost city in the desert and a fabulous treasure. John Wayne swaps his horse for a camel, but otherwise remains very much the same Big John (complete with Stetson) as a desert adventurer with the unlikely name of Joe January, who utters the immortal line :'What are we doin' out here in the middle 'o' nowhere, lookin' fer nothin' in the wrong season! .

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