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- A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure -- and their estranged romance.
- A dramatized speculation of what happened in November 1983 when Micky McAvoy and some of his mates planned a heist and were surprised when they discovered they'd stumbled across a large stash of gold. But getting the gold away without getting caught is only the beginning of their troubles. Realizing the riches the gold represents is difficult, and honor among thieves may only be a myth.
- When a successful family man gets laid off, he leads his friends on a gold panning expedition in the mountains of Sonora, oblivious to what lurks where the water runs real deep.
- Two outcasts work together at a local junkyard. One is a milquetoast, who idolizes the other for his toughness. Together they decide to check out a mansion of a rich man and find themselves in the middle of violence, which puts them on the run and on the FBI most wanted list. On the road they team up with two women. The four pursue various adventures, but meanwhile federal agents are hot on their trails.
- Fool's Gold is a humorous eight-part series that follows Todd Ryznar and his rookie crew as they make a hilariously haphazard foray into the world of professional gold digging. Armed with backwoods ingenuity, perseverance, stubbornness - and little else - will their beginner's luck be rewarded, or will their hopes be dashed?
- "Finn" Finnegan is a treasure hunter searching for a sunken Spanish galleon, the Aurelia, that was lost at sea with the 1715 Treasure Fleet. During his search to find the galleon and its treasure, his wife Tess divorces him.
- The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the gang to justice.
- The bucolic life of a sheltered Hasidic Jew is turned upside down after his Grandmother kicks him off their farm.
- When "Iris" is forced to write about his experience as a gay man in high school, he comes face to face with the exploitation of trauma as those around him learn what it means to express oneself.
- A poor prospector who stumbles upon extreme wealth, finds out quickly - grand riches may sometimes complicate things.
- 2020, the virus has taken over the world, people are dying out en masse, the economy is collapsing (or so it looks like). Unemployment is still a current and ignored problem. At such times, something happened in the city called Lodz: they say that a rock fell from the sky and killed a homeless man. Later, by accident, two gray people find her - Milosz and Tomek. Without worrying about the corpse, they take a stone that seems valuable. Thus, they become involved in the police investigation and become suspects in the case. History shows the absurdity of the times we live in - where everything and nothing matters.
- Marshall Strong and John Moore, partners in a western gold mine, both fall in love with schoolteacher Constance Harvey, but she marries Moore, even though she is attracted to the shy Strong, because Moore convinces her that Strong loves someone else. After they strike ore, Moore is killed in a barroom brawl and Strong is accused of murder. He hides out and sends for Constance, but when Lilas Niles, a squatter's daughter who wants Strong's money, deceitfully tells him that Constance is sending the police, Strong leaves, embittered, and marries Lilas. Years later, Strong, now known as Mark Smith, is a wealthy mine owner. Constance lives with her son David who loves Strong's daughter Nancy and works in Strong's mine. After Strong refuses demands for safety precautions, an explosion traps David underground. When Strong discovers that David is Constance's son, he rushes into the burning mine to save him. Strong then promises safer conditions, and David marries Nancy.
- An unlikely group of high school seniors do community service at a museum rumored to have a hidden treasure.
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- Gilbert Judson and Lois Bedford live by their wits. Cards furnish them with their principal source of income. Helen Rowe, wife of a wealthy young businessman, is their prey at the time the story opens. She is delighted with them as friends and participates in their games, winning, as the beginner always does. Her luck changes, however, and she begins signing I.O.U. slips for Judson. She gets in deeper than she can afford and becomes desperate. Her husband purchases an expensive piece of jewelry for her. It contains an unusually large diamond. A new maid is employed. She is the accomplice of another crook, who places her in the house for the purpose of robbery. She notes the diamond piece and the wall safe in which it is kept. One night the safe is broken and the maid disappears. Mrs. Rowe is relieved. She had purchased a paste imitation of the diamond and placed it in the safe. Her husband thinks the jewelry stolen. She goes to Judson with the real one and offers it to him in payment. He suggests there are other ways of paying. Gunther, a detective, who found one of the I.O.U. slips, comes in to save her. He recognizes Judson as wanted for several other crimes. He lets the criminal go, takes the diamond piece and returns it to Mr. and Mrs. Rowe, keeping the latter's escapade secret from her husband. But Mrs. Rowe has learned her lesson.
- While desperately trying and failing to grow saffron for his new business venture, a workaholic husband discovers that his crops are suddenly growing gold instead.
- Bill loves gold more than life itself. When he returns from the grave to recover his treasure he must face the woman he abandoned, the friend that betrayed him and the lawless town full of gun-toting scoundrels looking to collect the reward on Bill's head.
- Dahlonega; 60 miles north of Atlanta; Myra is part Cherokee, a cleaner in the local hotel. She and husband Thomas and unemployed son Terry live in a trailer park. In 1828 gold was found in Dahlonega; The Cherokees were rounded up and force-marched to the west in the 'Trail of Tears.' Today Dahlonega is a rich town living off that history. In a moving portrait, Fool's Gold peels away the layers of affluent colour-co-ordinated shops, cafes and big cars to reveal a community, where people like Myra and Thomas, live out life untouched by the prosperity of tourism, who struggle with poverty but share the little they have with others.
- An aging bounty hunter and his rambunctious son search for buried treasure in the Wild West, but a gang of bandits appear to reclaim what's theirs.
- When keen metal detector Derek inadvertently stumbles onto a rivals patch. He digs up more than he can shovel.
- America's West: where the good life includes sustainable income, development of land use, the rise of a town, and the horror of its crash and burn. FOOLS GOLD: CALIFORNIA ROAD TRIP in an ELECTION YEAR, features America's dream of a better tomorrow; while asking what is the nature of our "work" and how does that impact us, our surroundings and the environment? We are drawn into a bizarre mix that includes a mining town, its adjoining attraction of unique prehistoric rock formations used by Hollywood for science-fiction movie sets, a salt lake bed and the mineral wealth of borax incorporated, along with personal stories of elderly residents who experienced the live-work experiment that eventually resulted in a mass layoff and exodus. The edit weaves together different genres revealing actions, desires, and mindsets similar to those who gravitated to the West during the era of Manifest Destiny. Scientific and historic facts about the Gold Rush, the 1980's and current times, entwine with the story of Cain's intention towards his brother Abel, and Zombies found in many horror movies, that nonetheless, parallels human desire and its habits of consumption.
- Gone daft through years of searching for El Dorado, the old miner thinks that the vein of iron pyrites he has found is a lode of rich gold-bearing earth. With frantic joy he displays his samples at the saloon in town, and invites everybody to celebrate his luck. The knowing ones kindly congratulate him and wink at each other; a young prospector saves the situation by secretly giving the bartender money with which to cash the "nugget" tendered by the old man in payment for the drinks. A greaser among the crowd sees the transaction and believes that the old miner has really struck gold. He determines to rob him of his claim and follows when the veteran, with elaborate caution, proceeds to his mine. The young prospector and the sheriff are rivals for the hand of the miner's orphaned niece, and bad blood arises between them. The sheriff threatens openly to "get something on" his rival. Under the influence of liquor he follows the prospector and sees him shoot the greaser, who has apparently killed the crazy miner. The sheriff takes advantage of his authority to arrest his rival, and handcuffs him, although he protests that border law justifies his act. On the way to town the sheriff stumbles and falls to death. The prisoner contrives to take the key to the handcuffs from his pocket, and after a vain effort to release himself, is freed by the girl.
- A charming, beautiful thief and her deadly, charismatic partner pursue the fortune of an eccentric clown.
- On a caravan to California, Dr. Holt Ezra punishes his wife Hetty for flirting with young men. The caravan stops in the town of Independence.
- Dick Webster is confidential secretary to J.J. Whittier, a capitalist. Dick and his wife, Molly, find it hard to live on the small salary he is receiving. Bruce Higgins is a clerk in Mr. Whittier's employ, and one day, noting Webster's brooding tries to cheer him up. Webster tells him of his troubles and Higgins invites him to meet some friends. He makes the acquaintance of Doris Vane, a "social vampire," and she attracts him by her charms. Doris and Higgins are partners in a scheme to make money easy and Webster agrees to furnish them with tips on the market. He does this and Doris places the information in the hands of Higgins. The trio make quite a large sum of money. According to the agreement Webster receives one-half of the money. He takes it home with childish pleasure, but when his wife learns how he got the money and realizes that it was dishonestly, she will have nothing to do with it, and pleads with him to return it to his employer. This he refuses to do and a quarrel ensues. Webster returns to the office, ever on the alert for new tips, but this time does not share the information with his partners and plays a lone hand. His luck is phenomenal and his wealth grows by leaps and bounds. His two partners, angry because he will not share his wealth with them, tell his employer and Webster is tired. The crowd of parasites which surround him, tell him how wonderful he is and cause him to believe that he is a master of finance. He believes that if he could marry into a family of established wealth he could increase his power. Accordingly he secures a divorce from Molly and begins to look about him for a new wife, Whittier and Doris have spread the news of the methods he used to secure his wealth and none of the people whom he wishes to associate with will have anything to do with him. Doris, however, wins his consent to their marriage. Their house becomes a gathering place for a swift set. Doris spends his money freely and Higgins, her companion, helps her. Meanwhile, Molly's child is born and really loving Dick, she pleads with his old employer to win him back to her. As the old man really at heart likes Dick, he agrees, but realizes that the only way to save him is to utterly crush him. Accordingly all the forces of Whittier's name is thrown into the battle and the climax is reached when Webster is ruined. Webster returns to his sumptuous home, which he finds filled with people, eating and drinking, and his wife openly caressing Higgins amid the cheers of her companions. His anger overcomes him and he sets fire to the apartment, holding the crowd in the room at the point of a revolver. He is finally overcome and they make their escape, while he sinks in a chair with his head on the table. The faithful old butler, however, drags him out and he walks the streets the balance of the night waiting for morning and his final fate. Next day marks the complete ruin of Webster. Shunned by the parasites, who were his friends when he had money, he goes to his wife, who was wife in name only, but she deserts him. He returns to the ruin of his home and sifts the ashes of his home through his fingers. Whittier has called upon Molly, told her about her husband's misfortune, and overruling her protests, insists upon her taking the money which he has taken from her husband. She still refuses, but when he gently tells her of her happiness and her baby child, she realizes he is right and accepts the money. The old man advises her to put the money in the bank, and begin life anew with her husband. As Webster is sitting among the ashes of his ruined home, thinking over what he has lost and that he has nothing to live for and wondering how he shall do away with his life, he finds a chubby hand nestling into his own and looks up into the eyes of his wife. Realizing that at last he has found riches which cannot be stolen from him, he takes the patient and forgiving wife into his arms.
- A young man and woman sit down for a cup of coffee. They're in their twenties and have been friends since junior high school. She's been studying abroad for the last several years while he's been living in the basement of his parent's house in the same suburban community in which they grew up. When a lull in the conversation sets in, the young man decides it's the opportune time to reveal how he truly feels about her. His initial optimism that she may share his feelings slowly dissipates as the young woman attempts to let him down gently - though only after collecting all the compliments he has to offer. The young man compounds the problem by making a clumsy attempt to save face which contributes to their friendship being left in ruins.
- Two lovers must merge along with their family gold businesses before there is a hostile takeover from another woman.
- A gloomy Essex beach is the site of this rapture gone-wrong. While a black sheep loses her flock, a lonely metal detectorist strikes gold.
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