Gold

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Summary: Roger Moore gives one of his best Performances
Review: After Peter Hunt directed ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE he left the Bond series. This was Hunt's best directorial effort since then. Roger Moore gives a standout performance as an engineer working for a gold mine in South Africa. The beautiful Susannah York provides the love interest. The sort of likeable Bradford Dillman is the villain of the piece. At a time when composer Elmer Berstein seemed to be struggling between genres he came up with one of his most innovative and beautiful scores including a rousing vocal main title. This is a good film supported by an intelligent script. Well acted.

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Summary: Gold-More like nickel!
Review: I have to say how dissapointed I was when I recieved my DVD copy of Gold last week 3 march 2001. The movie itself is an absolute classic with Roger in fine form as Rod Steiner. However the quality of the Disc is just totally ..... period. The picture jumps the colours are awful and the sound also jumps. My old video copy that I taped from the tv and played hundreds of times is far superior to this. I noticed on the availability list that there are two prices listed for this DVD. I purchased the one priced at us$6.99. If anyone has purchased the more ....... copy please e-mail me to let me know what the quality of this as I might decide to purchase it. [e-mail]

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Summary: 1974 was not a banner year for production value
Review: i just read all the complaints about the video/dvd versions of "Gold". the production value of this film is extremely low. the master, i'm sure, is not the best to get a print from. unfortunately, the original had sound & editing problems to begin with. let's face it, does "Chinatown" have high production value? - no because the technology was substandard compared to today's expectations - there's only so much you can do with a master, filmed primarily in South Africa, the primary set being a mine shaft and to boot - it takes place in the 70's.

the content of this film was only passable anyway - wilbur smith doth not an "odyessy" make...perhaps "diamonds" would be the title to work with today - this film was just a product of its time - politically ambitious - like "traffic" was in 2000/2001.

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Summary: Great Movie - Lousy DVD quality, I mean LOUSY!!
Review: I saw this movie many years ago, still a good flick! But the quality of the DVD is just plain LOUSY, audio cuts off as if the movie is "censored", color??? what color??? No big deal to spend $7.00 if you would like to see the movie but you sure do not want to include this DVD with your prized collection!

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Summary: Excellent film--horrible dvd
Review: This is an excellent film, well woth seeing. The dvd is probably the worst technically I have ever seen. Colors shift, focus drifts, I cannot understand how anyone could make such a miserable copy and then have the nerve to sell it without labeling it "SUBSTANDARD".

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Summary: Great movie...pity about the DVD
Review: This movie made by former Bond director Peter (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) Hunt and starring then 007 Roger Moore has all the hallmarks of a great fun action thriller. Yet, the action doesn't seem to truly pick up until the latter part of the movie when things start to go terribly wrong in a South African gold mine.
The plot - for what it's worth - revolves around plans to increase the value of gold stocks by flooding a gold mine in Africa, and the machinations employed to keep the manager of the mine (played by Moore) suitably distracted and away from the location to allow the villains plot to succeed.
A great cast supports Moore in this piece including Susannah York and Sir John Gielgud and it moves at a fair pace. The troubling aspect about this movie (and the reason I give it only four stars) is the poor treatment that has been afforded the picture on the DVD - it really does deserve to be redone and remastered.

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Summary: Authentic
Review: While living in South Africa in 1972 I had the idiot notion I might like to work in a gold mine, so I spent a day about 2 miles down. This, and my studies of geology, qualify me to speak a bit to the authenticity of this movie.
What the audience of this movie cannot FEEL about life 2 miles down is the heat and humidity that is natural and the coldness that is artificially created by the 20-ft fans pulling air down through the tunnels and around one's drenched body. But everything that can be conveyed visually is true to the facts of that time (above ground and below, and political as well as natural), and for these reasons this is an absorbing story well told.

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Summary: Gold - Remastered From The Original 8mm Master
Review: Yes, I must agree with other reviews, the quality is very poor with words cut out. Strange when they claim it's restored from a "master copy". Perhaps the movie will be re-issued in anamorphic widescreen by a dvd mastering company that has something better than a 10 year old vhs deck!