Joe Johnston · 2004 · overland

Joe Johnston's 2004 adventure, loosely from Frank Hopkins's tall tales. A washed-up American cowboy and his mustang Hidalgo are invited to Arabia to run the Ocean of Fire, a punishing three-thousand-mile survival race across the desert from Aden to Damascus. Against Bedouin thoroughbreds, sandstorms, sabotage and raiders, the long-shot pair ride for the finish and their own redemption.

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   Aden

   The Arabian port where the American cowboy Frank Hopkins and his mustang line up against the finest desert horses for the Ocean of Fire, a grueling three-thousand-mile race across the sands.

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   The Rub al Khali

   The Empty Quarter, the vast and deadly heart of the Arabian desert the riders must cross - through sandstorms, sabotage and a raid that scatters the field.

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   Damascus

   The Syrian city at the race's end, where the exhausted, unlikely pair of cowboy and mustang ride for the finish line and the redemption that has driven them across a continent of sand.