Sunday, January 22, 2012

19. The Red Sea Sharks (1958)


The Red Sea Sharks is the nineteenth of The Adventures of Tintin. Its original French title is Coke en stock ("coke in stock") referring to a slang term for African slaves.
The Red Sea Sharks is the first Tintin adventure to bring together a large number of previously seen characters: General Alcazar (The Broken Ear) the characters from Khemed (Land of Black Gold), Rastapopoulos (Cigars of the Pharaoh), Dawson (The Blue Lotus), Allan (The Crab with the Golden Claws), and Dr. J.W. Müller (The Black Island).
The Red Sea Sharks is an adventure in which Tintin finds who is behind Sheikh Bab El Ehr's overthrow of Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, the emir of Khemed.
After watching a movie, Tintin and Captain Haddock round a corner and bump into General Alcazar, who drops his wallet. Tintin attempts to return it, but the hotel he claimed to be staying at never heard of him, and when Tintin calls a phone number found in his wallet, the man refuses to talk to him. When Tintin and Haddock return home, they discover that the Emir's bratty, impossibly spoiled son Abdullah has been sent there for safekeeping, along with a colorful entourage of servants and dignitaries who have just set up a bedouin-bivouac in the great hall of Marlinspike Hall.



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