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Overview
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Release Date:
16 October 1974 (USA)
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Tagline:
The world's most daring conspiracy against the world's most precious metal! And only one man can stop it! more
Plot:
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine...
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Plot Keywords:
Gold
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South Africa
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Mining Accident
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Ambulance
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 nomination
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Has Its Moments
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Roger Moore | ... | Rod Slater | |
| Susannah York | ... | Terry Steyner | |
| Ray Milland | ... | Hurry Hirschfeld | |
| Bradford Dillman | ... | Manfred Steyner | |
| John Gielgud | ... | Farrell | |
| 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 |
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Also Known As:
The Great Gold Conspiracy (USA)
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Runtime:
120 min | USA:119 min (DVD)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
West Germany:16 |
Iceland:12 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:15 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:PG |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:12 (video rating) |
Netherlands:16
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Roger Moore was reluctant to accept the role at first, owing to the character being a cigarette smoker (he had recently stopped smoking cigarettes and gravitated to Monte Cristo cigars). As it was necessary for Rod Slater's character to smoke cigarettes rather than cigars Moore's objection was overruled, though his smoking scenes were reduced to a bare minimum.
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Quotes:
Rod Slater:
My God, you're beautiful.
Terry Steyner (Sussanah York): Kiss me you fool.
Farrel (John Gielgud): Rod Slater, Do you know what your getting yourself into?
Rod Slater: No, No I dont.
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Terry Steyner (Sussanah York): Kiss me you fool.
Farrel (John Gielgud): Rod Slater, Do you know what your getting yourself into?
Rod Slater: No, No I dont.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge: (#1.1)" (1994)
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Soundtrack:
WHEREVER LOVE TAKES ME
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This is not a great film, but it has its moments. In 1974 probably not too many people knew much about South Africa and the gold mining process, so for that reason it was educational. The mine sequences are interesting although undoubtedly filmed on a studio set. For me the most interesting action sequence though is when the hero is trying to land a plane on a tailings pile at a speed low enough to almost stall out. Most interesting of all, thirty years ago it was almost unheard of to see frontal nudity in a major film. When Susannah York's breast appeared out of the suds in the bathtub scene, my jaw dropped open. I couldn't believe I was really seeing it. For sheer surprise it ranks right up there with Charlton Heston kissing a black woman in that science fiction film that I think was called The Omega Man. Today of course such things are commonplace.