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Gold [1973] [DVD]
enlarge	Director: Peter R. Hunt Actors: Roger Moore, Ray Milland, John Gielgud, Bradford Dillman, Susannah York Studio: Showbox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£5.99~~ Buy New: £2.66 as of 22/11/2009 06:35 GMT details You Save: £3.33 (56%) New (7) from £2.66 Seller: jomo100 Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 25024 Format: PAL, Widescreen Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 119 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060132910641 ASIN: B000P0JQ8C Theatrical Release Date: 1973 Release Date: April 2, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next » A great letter box copy February 1, 2009 Andy B (Canada) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful Yet another 70,s movie not released in Canada. br / br /here it is a great action movie with a great score in a letter box 2:35.1 edition. br / br /Worth a look any day A good example of what the 70s did best July 23, 2009 Lou Knee (England) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful A big movie adaption of a blockbuster novel set in the gold mining industry of South Africa. This is an old style, commercial thriller with a good old fashioned narrative. It's done very well, and these days it's like a breath of fresh air to watch such an unpretentious action drama fold out before you. There is much slightly quaint nostalgia about the movie too, shot in obviously apartheid SA, it gives subtle, rebelious little digs at the system, while showing a colonial bond with British culture that very probably wouldn't be shown or celebrated today. There is an air of sophisticated internationalism about it that the white South Africans have always loved and notably, there isn't an Afrikaans in sight, though there are racist white villains, most of whom are British. br / br /Much of the film, and most of the action, is set underground and looks very realistic to me. Roger Moore is good casting for the lead part of Rod Slater and shows how good he can be in the right kind of role. There isn't an eyebrow twitch in sight, and once again he proves how badly maligned he is as an actor, with many people wrongly convinced 007 was his standard movie persona. He gets good support from a typically feisty Susanah York and typically stuffy Ray Milland. Has a decent soundtrack and looks very good in widescreen, the right format for this kind of movie. Yes, I'd have thought of a different ending than the wrecking of a Roller on a slag heap, this was an unimaginative climax scene. Apart from that I've always liked the film, it is solid old fashioned entertainment the way films used to be made more and it stands up pretty well today. A good advert for 70s cinema, this. 4.5 gold stars. When men were men and only the villains didn't smoke December 12, 2007 Trevor Willsmer (London, England) 11 out of 11 found this review helpful Gold certainly comes over better in widescreen than it does in the cropped and edited TV and Public Domain prints that have been floating around for years. The first of Roger Moore's trio of South African shot adventures (along with Shout at the Devil and The Wild Geese), it's very much of its time: this being the mid-70s, the villains are easy to spot - they're the ones who wash their hands, don't smoke and aren't any good in the sack - while the good guys aren't afraid of a little dirt or sleeping with the boss's wife. Along with Moore the credits are littered with many of the regular Bond team most of whom would go through the same flooding-the-mine routine again in A View To a Kill - but then, since the film's hiking-up-the-price-of-gold premise is borrowed from Goldfinger (albeit a tad more credible than setting off a nuclear bomb in Fort Knox), there's no real cause for complaint. Like Elmer Bernstein and Jimmy Helms' title song, it's not subtle but it's an entertaining two hours if it catches you in the right mood. br / br /Finally available in its original widescreen ratio after years of terrible fullframe releases, there are no extras apart from a poorly reproduced stills gallery. Widescreen at last! June 4, 2007 A.Viewer 20 out of 21 found this review helpful At last this 1970's adventure film, from Wilbur Smith's novel "Gold Mine", gets a widescreen release, with only poor quality, full screen releases being previously available, including several different but equally poor US versions. br / br /The film is now in its original 2.35:1 ratio, anamorphically enhanced and with a pretty decent transfer. It has 20 chapter stops, but no extras other than a rather pointless ten picture "image gallery". br / br /Elmer Bernstein's score is particularly note-worthy and would well deserve a CD release. 3 stars for the film one for the DVD October 11, 2008 Empe (Italy) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful A old classic movie, betrayed by this poor DVD version. The plot is an adaptament of a Wilbur Smith's classic book ("perhaps" non between the bests). BTW why make so "bad" movies from very good action books (like Smith's or Cussler's books) ???. This film has a good cast and good action scenes (for that time). But the DVD in too poor, expecially for for audio and subtitles lacking Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next »

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