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Somewhere in the Orient: Kara Ben Nemsi (Helmuth Schneider) fetches his friend Hadschi Halef Omar (Georg Thomalla) to pry him away from his bossy wife (Amelia Ortas) and pay their friend Sir Lindsay (Theo Lingen) a visit - but on their way they listen in on two baddies talking about an evil scheme that local villain Säfir (Rafael Luis Calvo) has hatched. They overcome the baddies, assume their identities, and enter the services of Säfir themselves - but all gets very confusing when they're arrested by the police, escape thanks to a policeman (José Sepúlveda) secretly working for Säfir, are found out, captured by Säfir's men - but then Säfir's daughter Säfa (Mara Cruz), who isn't actually his daughter and hates him believing he has killed her real parents, frees Kara. Säfir's men meanwhile raid a caravan led by Ikbal (Pedro Giménez), who's one of Säfir's men, but he has just fallen in love with Irida (Pilar Cansino), member of the caravan, and had a sudden change of heart and now wants to be one of the good guys. Oh, and he's actually the brother of Säfa. And while Säfir and his men do evil, having put up camp in some old ruins, Kara happens upon Sir Lindsay, who, being an archeologist, has just found a secret entrance to the same ruins. Now Kara rides to the next town, that's conveniently only a stonethrow away, where his good friend Osman Pascha (Francisco Montalvo) is chief of police, and returns with an army of soldiers to surround the ruins and ultimately smoke Säfir out. And in the post-finale scene, Säfa and Ikbal are reunited with their real father (Antonio Casas), many moons ago the arch enemy of Säfir but broken when Säfir killed his wife and kidnapped his offspring.

Safe from lead Viktor Staal, much of the cast of Die Sklavenkarawane returned for this sequel, even if many in different roles. Now Staal was by no means the strongest link of the earlier movie, but his replacement Helmuth Schneider somewhat lacks in charisma to fill the role. As for this film on hand, it's a slightly old-fashioned and somewhat over-convoluted adventure yarn that kind of fails to put a real scope to its story - quite the contrary, despite there being much talk about caravans, secret ruins, smuggling operations, everything seems to take place in a radios of no more than 20 miles, where Kara's horses are always in whistling distance, one would just run into friends by mere accident, the police precinct is only a stonethrow away, and it would always be easy to track somebody down and overtake them who had a half day headstart. And for that, it's really hard for tension to build as it seems nothing in this movie ever has any serious repercussions. Of course, the film's still fun seen through a nostalgia lense, it's just not at all a great movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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