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Scadinavian Edition, PAL/Region 2 DVD: Subtitles: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish. Audio: English. No English Subtitles. A Gripping Thriller.They say that money is the root of all evil. Money makes people greedy and greedy people do devious things. The characters in this story may prove this allegation correct with the ruthless scheming that comes from the most unlikely sources. Hurry Hirschfield (Ray Milland) is a crotchety but caring gold tycoon who owns the country's largest mine and falls victim to a cold-blooded plot. His granddaughter Terry Steyner (Susannah York) is married to the villain, Manfred Steyner (Bradford Dillman), who, in cahoots with Farrell (John Gielgud), a wealthy but unscrupulous entrepreneur, schemes to flood Hirschfeld's mine. Steyner's motivation for betraying his wife's grandfather is so he and Farrell can manipulate international gold prices in order to flood their own pockets with wealth. Had mine manager Rod Slater (Roger Moore) not stumbled across the loathsome plot, the greedy men's nearly flawless scheme just might have worked.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By A.Viewer
Format:DVD
At last this 1970's adventure film, from Wilbur Smith's novel "Gold Mine", gets a widescreen release, with only poor quality, full screen releases being previously available, including several different but equally poor US versions.
The film is now in its original 2.35:1 ratio, anamorphically enhanced and with a pretty decent transfer. It has 20 chapter stops, but no extras other than a rather pointless ten picture "image gallery".
Elmer Bernstein's score is particularly note-worthy and would well deserve a CD release.
The film is now in its original 2.35:1 ratio, anamorphically enhanced and with a pretty decent transfer. It has 20 chapter stops, but no extras other than a rather pointless ten picture "image gallery".
Elmer Bernstein's score is particularly note-worthy and would well deserve a CD release.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Gold certainly comes over better in widescreen than it does in the cropped and edited TV and Public Domain prints that have been floating around for years. The first of Roger Moore's trio of South African shot adventures (along with Shout at the Devil and The Wild Geese), it's very much of its time: this being the mid-70s, the villains are easy to spot - they're the ones who wash their hands, don't smoke and aren't any good in the sack - while the good guys aren't afraid of a little dirt or sleeping with the boss's wife. Along with Moore the credits are littered with many of the regular Bond team most of whom would go through the same flooding-the-mine routine again in A View To a Kill - but then, since the film's hiking-up-the-price-of-gold premise is borrowed from Goldfinger (albeit a tad more credible than setting off a nuclear bomb in Fort Knox), there's no real cause for complaint. Like Elmer Bernstein and Jimmy Helms' title song, it's not subtle but it's an entertaining two hours if it catches you in the right mood.
Finally available in its original widescreen ratio after years of terrible fullframe releases, there are no extras apart from a poorly reproduced stills gallery.
Finally available in its original widescreen ratio after years of terrible fullframe releases, there are no extras apart from a poorly reproduced stills gallery.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a very fine movie, well acted, good plot, excellent location. However, this DVD is the worst quality production I have ever seen in a commercial pressed DVD. Its miriad faults include:
* Appalling colour balance. Most of the film could be in sepia monochrome, and you would not tell the difference.
* Heavily cropped from the original panavision 2.35:1 to 4:3, so that just about half of the frame is lost. This makes several scenes just background to the action taking place (invisibly) to the sides.
* The penultimate scene is badly pressed, giving the first pressed DVD I have ever viewed that would not play without fault. A 15 second pause with blocky representation of a frame, followed by the next scene some actual six minutes later in the movie.
* Poor sound quality.
* Poor focus.
I suspect that the producers of this DVD used a seventh generation copy of the original film, not the master, or even a first generation copy. I completely fail to understand why the film was so heavily and unnecessarily cropped.
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Could have been good.
Ray Milland excellent as an overbearing bully.
Bradford Dillman excellent.
Roger Moore good.
S York bad.
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Bradford Dillman excellent.
Roger Moore good.
S York bad.
Love story killed the film.
Published on 9 Sep 2009 by Mr Viewer
5.0 out of 5 stars
A good example of what the 70s did best
A big movie adaption of a blockbuster novel set in the gold mining industry of South Africa. This is an old style, commercial thriller with a good old fashioned narrative. Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by Lou Knee
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great letter box copy
Yet another 70,s movie not released in Canada.
here it is a great action movie with a great score & in a letter box 2:35.1 edition.
Worth a look any day
here it is a great action movie with a great score & in a letter box 2:35.1 edition.
Worth a look any day
Published on 1 Feb 2009 by Andy B
3.0 out of 5 stars
3 stars for the film one for the DVD
A old classic movie, betrayed by this poor DVD version. The plot is an adaptament of a Wilbur Smith's classic book ("perhaps" non between the bests). Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2008 by Empe
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Smashing Action Film - lots of 007 input behind the camera
This was either made just before or after Moore being made Bond, and indeed the director, editor, title designer to mention a few, have all worked on 007 films. Read more
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