A Prize of Gold
Stolen Gold ... for the girl with the golden flesh!
1955 | 98m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Mark Robson |
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| Writer: | Robert Buckner, John Paxton, Max Catto |
| Staring: |
| A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 14, 1955 |
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| Director: | Mark Robson |
| Writer: | Robert Buckner, John Paxton, Max Catto |
| Genres: | Drama, War |
| Keywords | based on novel or book, kidnapping, romance |
| Production Companies | Warwick Film Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Apr 27, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Richard Widmark | Sgt. Joe Lawrence |
| Mai Zetterling | Maria |
| Nigel Patrick | Brian Hammell |
| George Cole | Sgt. Roger Morris |
| Donald Wolfit | Alfie Stratton |
| Joseph Tomelty | Uncle Dan |
| Andrew Ray | Conrad |
| Karl Stepanek | Dr. Zachmann |
| Robert Ayres | Tex |
| Eric Pohlmann | Hans Fischer |
| Olive Sloane | Mavis |
| Alan Gifford | Maj. Bracken |
| Ivan Craig | British Officer |
| Harry Towb | Benny |
| Leslie Linder | Pole |
| Monika Kossmann | Lisa |
| Edelweiß Malchin | Girl on Plane |
| Erich Dunskus | Canal Foreman |
| Nelly Arno | German Landlady |
| John Witty | British Officer |
| Joel Riordan | Soldier |
| Marvin Kane | Soldier |
| Arnold Bell | Police Detective (uncredited) |
| Sam Kydd | Milkman (uncredited) |
| Carol White | German Refugee (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Mark Robson | Director |
| Robert Buckner | Screenplay |
| John Paxton | Screenplay |
| Bill Lewthwaite | Editor |
| J.B. Smith | Sound |
| Angela Martelli | Continuity |
| Malcolm Arnold | Original Music Composer |
| Charles Knott | Sound |
| Max Catto | Novel |
| Ted Moore | Director of Photography |
| John Box | Art Direction |
| Muir Mathieson | Music Director |
| Adrian D. Worker | Production Supervisor |
| Max Varnel | Assistant Director |
| Allan Harris | Assistant Art Director |
| Cecil Cooney | Camera Operator |
| Freddie Williamson | Makeup Artist |
| Anne Box | Hairdresser |
| Dick Killinger | Location Manager |
| Elsa Fennell | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Albert R. Broccoli | Executive Producer |
| Phil C. Samuel | Producer |
| Irving Allen | Executive Producer |
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Popularity History
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Richard Widmark was sometimes quite good in his more edgy, grittier parts - but shove him in an uniform and he is really just a pretty boy - like he is here. When a cache of gold is discovered by some remarkably honest folks dredging a river in Berlin, it is turned over to the joint British and Amer ... ican authorities and "Joe" (Widmark) is charged with shifting it. Meantime, he and his pal "Morris" (George Cole) have their jeep pinched by a youngster. Giving chase, he arrives at a bombed-out building being used as a makeshift orphanage by "Maria" (Mai Zetterling) and "Dr. Zachmann" (Karel Stepanek). He wants to help, and so with his pal and a pretty ruthless "Hammell" (Nigel Patrick) finds a way to divert the gold and... Donald Wolfit is quite effective as the pretty devious "Alfie", but the rest of this blurs a decent adventure caper with too much romance and Widmark really isn't on very good firm. The dialogue is wordy and rambling and though the ending is rather befitting - for Patrick anyway, it is all just a bit routine and humdrum.