"The Adventurers," released in 1970 and directed by Lewis Gilbert, tells the story of Dax Xenos (Bekim Fehmiu). As a young boy in 1945, he witnesses his mother’s and sister’s deaths during a revolution in the fictional South American country of Corteguay. Years later, living as an ambassador's son in Rome, he is portrayed as an emotionally detached playboy who marries for money (with Candice Bergen), but remains preo…