The Adventurers (Fortune In Diamonds) 1951 Film ? |
Graves1879
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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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Re: The Adventurers (Fortune In Diamonds) 1951 Film ? |
PeterD
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You'll find some more opinions (equally unenthusiastic) here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043263/ (Scroll down to User Comments and click on "more.") |
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mike snook 2
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Coll
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!) As ever Mike |
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Coll
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All
Thanks for your replies. Coll |
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the adventurers |
Stephen Coan
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You'll see it uses the same location as Zulu.
Cheers Stephen |
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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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Coll
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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. Coll |
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