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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PLUNDER OF THE SUN
EAN: 9781415713914
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 141571391X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 06, 2006
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 54015
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 26, 1953
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Product Description:
An American insurance agent gets into trouble when he is hired to smuggle an Aztec artifact from Cuba to Mexico.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: PLUNDER OF THE SUN
Title: PLUNDER OF THE SUN
Street Release Date: 06/06/2006
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Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
Amazon.com:
Plunder of the Sun plays like a low-budget merging of two Bogart classics, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Maltese Falcon. Wiseguy Al Colby (Glenn Ford) finds himself short of funds in Havana, but a mysterious antiquities trader (Francis L. Sullivan, doing his best Sydney Greenstreet) enlists Colby to transport a package from Cuba to Mexico. The package is a piece in a puzzle that could lead to millions in ancient gold, possibly buried in the elaborate ruins of Zapotecan temples--if Colby can survive the other adventurers jockeying to get the stuff. Director John Farrow keeps the story moving and the shadows at a satisfyingly noirish level even if the material never rises to anything like classic status, while Glenn Ford provides a fitting cruel streak for his nobody-makes-a-sucker-out-of-me hero. This was one of two movies Farrow made in Mexico that year for John Wayne's Batjac production company, the other being Hondo. The balled-up plot, international gaggle of eccentric performers (most colorfully Wayne regular Sean McClory), and somewhat chintzy location shooting call to mind another globe-trotting movie of that era, Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin, and this movie even shares actress Particia Medina with that picture. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - "Take a good look at yourself! Who'd want to kiss THAT?"
One of the more ambitious titles from John Wayne's Batjac production company, PLUNDER OF THE SUN (based on the book by David Dodge) stars Glenn Ford as an average joe who becomes the target for a deadly game of cat-and-mouse when he agrees to take a mysterious parcel over the Mexican border.
Al Corby (Glenn Ford), broke and stranded in Havana, is offered $1,000 to transport a small package from Havana to Mexico. He quickly agrees but soon regrets his rash decision when he's later keenly ... Read More
Rating:  - Interesting Characters
I'm not one to fall all over A productions at the expense of B films. Too many of the latter type are more entertaining and this film is a good example. The script unfolds in an entertaining, no-frills manner but is significantly heightened by the quirky characters. Sean McClory definitely stands out but check out that slob of a ship's captain. You don't really know what to make of the characters. Plunder is not overlong and has great location scenery. Glenn Ford's movies are among my all-time favorites ... Read More
Rating: - Greed, Buried Treasure, and Glenn Ford, too!
While much of Glenn Ford's early 1950s film output are unabashedly 'B' movies (he filled the same niche as Robert Mitchum did, at RKO), his movies are, by and large, very entertaining, and "Plunder of the Sun", shot in Mexico for Warners and John Wayne's Batjac Productions, is no exception. Directed by John Farrow, this action drama offers noir elements (an ambiguous hero, a 'fallen' woman, brutal violence, and an 'expressionist' use of light and shadow), John Huston-like characters (reminiscent of both ... Read More
Rating: - A B rated Maltese Falcon set in Mexico
The late Glenn Ford was known for his stand up roles (Cowboy, Pocketful of Miracles) in most of his films. Here he plays against hero type...a down on his luck guy asked to carry a package (ala Bogie in Falcon) from Havana to Mexico on a ship. He meets characters similar to Bogie's Falcon (A fat man, a lorre wantabee in dark glass and two Fem Fetales). It ends in mexican ruins and Ford shines better then this script. John Farrow (mia's dad) direct this fairly, mostly in angles and over staging the scenes. ... Read More
Rating: - Only Fair Suspense Thriller but Interesting Location Filming
Just fair movie as a suspense goes but interesting on-site filming in Mexico. The caracters were interesting but the story never delivered the suspense needed.
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