Fortune in Diamonds (1951)
Overview
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.952 |
Directed By
David MacDonald
Crew
Aubrey Baring
Maxwell Setton
David MacDonald
Don Weeks
Vladimir Sagovsky
David Peers
Gordon K. McCallum
Jim Hydes
Cedric Thorpe Davie
Arthur Ibbetson
C. C. Stevens
Robert Westerby
Robert Westerby
Oswald Morris
TOP CAST
Dennis Price
Clive Hunter
Jack Hawkins
Pieter Brandt
Siobhán McKenna
Anne Hunter
Peter Hammond
Hendrik van Thaal
Grégoire Aslan
Dominic
Charles Paton
Barman
Bernard Lee
O'Connell
Ronald Adam
Van Thaal
Martin Boddey
Chief Engineer
Philip Ray
1st Man Restaurant
Walter Horsbrugh
2nd Man Restaurant
Cyril Chamberlain
Waiter
Dido Plumb
Bar Patron
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