I saw this movie basically because I'm a Roger Moore fan, but his performance is rather rigid in this one; you can sense that he is limited by his role. Still, even a rigid Roger Moore is livelier than many other actors. It's also a pleasure to watch Ray Milland and (in a very brief part) John Gielgud. But Susannah York plays the typical movie character of the daughter/granddaughter/heiress of a billionaire who hasn't had to work for a day in her life but is still unhappy because she hasn't found true love yet....poor girl! "Gold" begins and ends as a disaster film, but the flabby mid-section is taken up by the Moore-York romance. When director Peter Hunt sticks to action, the film has some good moments, like a tense and realistic fistfight inside the mine and (at the very end) a vicious sequence in which a man tries to run down another man with his car. (**)
