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Plunder of the Sun (1953) -- An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.
Plunder of the Sun (1953) -- An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector of antiquities in a hunt for treasure in the Mexican ruins of Zapoteca.

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Writers:
David Dodge (novel)
Jonathan Latimer (screenplay)
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Release Date:
26 August 1953 (USA) more
Plot:
An American insurance adjuster, stranded in Havana, becomes involved with an archaeologist and a collector... more | full synopsis
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Cast

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Glenn Ford ... Al Colby
Diana Lynn ... Julie Barnes
Patricia Medina ... Anna Luz
Francis L. Sullivan ... Thomas Berrien
Sean McClory ... Jefferson
Eduardo Noriega ... Raul Cornejo
Julio Villarreal ... Ulbaldo Navarro (as Julio Villareal)
Charles Rooner ... Captain Bergman
Douglass Dumbrille ... Consul (as Douglas Dumbrille)
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Runtime:
81 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

Fun Stuff

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Mona Barrie's last movie. more
Quotes:
Al Colby: Drink's alright, just so it doesn't take you in the wrong direction. more
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14 out of 24 people found the following comment useful.
Read the book, 20 March 2004
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Author: Randal Brandt from Berkeley, California

Not much of David Dodge's novel remains in this film version, other than the names of some of the characters and the basic plot. American insurance investigator Al Colby is hired to smuggle a package out of Havana and into Oaxaca, Mexico. When the man who hired him is murdered aboard ship, Colby decides to find out what he is carrying and why it is worth killing for. Unscrupulous antiquities dealers, disgraced archaeologists, and desperate women all clash in a search for buried Zapotecan treasure. Glenn Ford is serviceable as Al Colby, but the plot is murky, the characters are under-developed, and the location is inexplicably changed from Peru to Mexico. Although it is long out-of-print, copies of the book are still relatively easy to find (unlike prints of this film, which is still tied up in Wayne estate litigation), and reading the book is a much better use of one's time.

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