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The Adventurers (Fortune In Diamonds) 1951 Film ?
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Looking through next week's tv programmes, I saw this film is on, starring Jack Hawkins.

It is set 3 years after the Boer War, when a group of men set out into Africa to search for diamonds.

The storyline is (annoyingly) similar to other films, although they were set elsewhere.

I can only find some details, but has anyone seen it ?

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Hi Coll
I have not seen the film, but have found this info:

The Adventurers - 1950 | 86 mins | Adveture, Drama | B&W
The Production Team
Director: David MacDonald.
Producer: Aubrey Baring and Maxwell Setton.
Script: Robert Westerby.
Cinematography: Oswald Morris.
Film Editing: Vladimir Sagovsky.
Art Direction: Edward Carrick.
Sound Department: Gordon K. McCallum and C.C. Stevens.
Original Music: Cedric Thorpe Davie.
The Cast
Jack Hawkins - Pieter Brandt
Peter Hammond - Hendrik van Thaal
Dennis Price - Clive Hunter
Gr�goire Aslan - Dominic
Charles Paton - Barman
Siobhan McKenna - Anne Hunter
Bernard Lee - O'Connell
Ronald Adam - Van Thaal Plot Synopsis
Slow-moving turn-of-the-century adventure set in the stunning mountain ranges of South Africa, just after the Boer War, which could have been quite stirring if it hadn't been morbidly under-directed by David MacDonald. Jack Hawkins was on his way to major stardom and leads the film cast against type as a villain.

Villainous commando Pieter Brandt (Jack Hawkins) enlists the help of a group of mismatched men to help him search the mountain ranges of South Africa for a cache of diamonds stolen during the Boer War. Joining Brandt is cashiered British officer Clive Hunter (Dennis Price), boyish looking Boer Hendrik van Thaal (Peter Hammond) and bartender Dominic (Gr�goire Aslan). As their obvious distrust comes to the surface, the search for riches becomes a tense and deadly affair.
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PeterD


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You'll find some more opinions (equally unenthusiastic) here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043263/

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mike snook 2


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I have seen it, but years ago. Its B&W I recall and I can remember them trekking about in an ox wagon. I fancy you might enjoy it. I think I did (though wouldn't swear to it afer all these years!)

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Stephen Coan


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You'll see it uses the same location as Zulu.
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Sheldon Hall


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As Stephen says, "The Adventurers" was shot in the Drakensberg a mere stone's throw away from the "Zulu" location site. In fact, Jack Hawkins stayed in the same hotel as he did 13 years later! It's not a great movie, but certainly worth seeing; however, C4's print seems to be several generations away from the original negative and looks rather dark and fuzzy.
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Watched it and as you say Sheldon, some of it was quite dark.

Black-and-white movies can be dramatic, but in this, the spectacular African scenery is lost through lack of colour.

The Colonial Ox-Wagon was accurate enough, but maybe they were still being made and used by some in the 1950s.

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