Gold
Everything they touch turns to pure excitement!
1974 | 120m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Peter R. Hunt |
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| Writer: | Wilbur Smith, Stanley Price |
| Staring: |
| Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners can make a killing in the international gold market. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 08, 1974 |
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| Director: | Peter R. Hunt |
| Writer: | Wilbur Smith, Stanley Price |
| Genres: | Adventure, Action, Thriller |
| Keywords | gold mine, aviation |
| Production Companies | Avton Films, Killarney Film Studios |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 14, 2024 |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Roger Moore | Rod Slater |
| Susannah York | Terry Steyner |
| Ray Milland | Hurry Hirschfeld |
| John Gielgud | Farrell |
| Bradford Dillman | Manfred Steyner |
| Tony Beckley | Stephen Marais |
| Simon Sabela | Big King |
| Marc Smith | Tex Kiernan |
| John Hussey | Plummer |
| Bernard Horsfall | Dave Kowalski |
| Bill Brewer | Aristide |
| Norman Coombes | Lemmer |
| George Jackson | Mine Doctor |
| Ken Hare | Jackson |
| Ralph Loubser | Mine Captain |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Peter R. Hunt | Director |
| Wilbur Smith | Novel, Screenplay |
| Elmer Bernstein | Music, Original Music Composer |
| Syd Cain | Production Design |
| Robert W. Laing | Art Direction |
| Bob Penn | Still Photographer |
| Ousama Rawi | Director of Photography |
| Joan Davis | Script Supervisor |
| Alex Vetchinsky | Production Design |
| Paul Engelen | Makeup Artist |
| Cliff Richardson | Special Effects |
| Marjory Cornelius | Costume Design |
| Irene Lamb | Casting |
| Bill Warrington | Special Effects |
| Ramon Gow | Hairstylist |
| Vicki Deason | Production Secretary |
| John W. Mitchell | Sound Recordist |
| Stanley Price | Screenplay |
| Rydal Love | Sound |
| Michael Crouch | Sound |
| John Glen | Second Unit Director, Editor |
| Alec Mills | Camera Operator |
| Maurice Binder | Main Title Designer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Michael Klinger | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13 | 27 | 8 |
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| 2025 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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Whilst this isn't actually very good, it is nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be! Roger Moore ("Slade") is the general manager of an huge gold mine who finds himself caught between the needs to keep his workforce safe, and the avaricious demands of the mine's owners. The conspiracy le ... d by Sir John Gielgud ("Farrell") and the disgruntled son-in-law of the mine's owner ("Manfred") Bradford Dillman is further fuelled by the fact that "Slater" is at it with"Terry" (Susannah York) who happens to be Dillman's wife. The romantic melodrama stuff is all a bit cheesy, but there is some superb local photography giving us a sense of the sheer scale of these huge operations, and the script allows us - coupled with a suitably imperious effort from Gielgud and a feisty one from mine owner "Hirschfeld" (Ray Milland) - to get gripped a little more by this story of greed and power, especially towards the end, than I had expected. Moore has star quality, he was worth his fee and although no, it's by no means a great film - it is quite an entertaining boy's own adventure film.