A Prize of Gold

10/14/19551h 38m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Stolen Gold ... for the girl with the golden flesh! ~

Overview:

A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.

Director:

Mark Robson

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

based on novel or book
kidnapping
romance

Cast

Richard Widmark

~ as ~

Sgt. Joe Lawrence

Mai Zetterling

~ as ~

Maria

Nigel Patrick

~ as ~

Brian Hammell

George Cole

~ as ~

Sgt. Roger Morris

Donald Wolfit

~ as ~

Alfie Stratton

Joseph Tomelty

~ as ~

Uncle Dan

Andrew Ray

~ as ~

Conrad

Karl Stepanek

~ as ~

Dr. Zachmann

Robert Ayres

~ as ~

Tex

Eric Pohlmann

~ as ~

Hans Fischer

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
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 American 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.