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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404969063
Format: Black & White, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404969063
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 05, 2005
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 44747
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 1949
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The tale of how immigrant jacob walz the dutchman of arizonas notorious lost dutchman gold mine found treasure and love and lost them again. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/05/2005 Starring: Ida Lupino Glenn Ford Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
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Rating:  - Western Noir
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LUST FOR GOLD (1949) is ostensibly the true story of the fabled Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. It stars Glenn Ford as Jacob "Dutch" Walz, perhaps the most villainous role of the actor's career.
Walz, according to this story, murdered several men, including his partner (Edgar Buchanan), in order to keep the location of his mine secret. However, when he meets Julia Thomas (Ida Lupino), he falls hard and is about to share his wealth with her until he learns that she and her husband (Gig Young) plan to steal the fortune from him. Walz' love quickly turns to thoughts of a brutal revenge.
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon, LUST FOR GOLD is actually two stories. There is the historical one, plus a modern tale in which Walz' grandson (William Prince) seeks the mine, only to be stalked by a mysterious killer.
This is a first-rate western, part film noir and part thriller.
© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
Rating: - Ida Lupino Shines!
Columbia Pictures DVD, excellent print and audio. A fun western mystery that holds your attention and keeps you guessing whodunit right up to the end. You may even be tempted to pack your duds and go in search of the legendary "Lost Dutchman" gold mine. Myself, I may do a little online research for fun on some rainy afternoon. Solid entertainment.
Rating: - A great western movie
Anyone who lives in Arizona would love this flick, a great story about the Old West.
Rating:  - Dark, Unembridled Greed
A rather grim but extremely satisfying Western directed by S. Sylvan Simon, features Glenn Ford as Jacob "Dutch" Walz, a German who discovers "the richest goldmine in the world" in 19th century Arizona. Although not as well-known as other Columbia Westerns, it holds up very well, and is much more appreciated now than it was when it was released in 1949. Juliet Thomas (Ida Lupino) is the cold-hearted woman who pretends to admire Walz as a man, when in fact she just wants to know where his mine is located. She goes so far as to put him up in her home after he collapses in a drunken stupor on the porch of her bakery, and later lets him court her. She pretends to be German (even briefly speaking to him in his native tongue), and feigns ignorance and disinterest in his newfound status as a wealthy citizen. Her pursuit of Jacob only infuriates her estranged husband, Pete Thomas (Gig Young), who wants to be back on her good side (as well as her bed), and so they quietly conspire together to learn the location of his mine and rob Jacob of his fortune. But he is soon onto them and it ends on an interesting showdown on Superstition Mountain.
Despite its serious tone, the film has some light-hearted moments, never more wonderfully presented as Juliet shows Jacob her family album and he comes across a photograph of her as an "au natural" baby, or the moment after Jacob hands off the cookies he bought from Juliet's shop to a young boy, who collapses under the weight of two massive baskets full! And ... Read More
Rating: - A Search For The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine, With Murder And Greed Along The Way
This forgotten gem is an A movie trying to break out of a B movie's conventions. Even as a B movie, if it had been directed by Edgar Ulmer many people would be raving over it. But it was directed by a man named S. Sylvan Simon who died of a heart attack in his forties. This was his last movie, and it has been forgotten just about as thoroughly as he has.
It's the story of the Lost Dutchman Mine, a rich gold mine lost, then discovered again, and then apparently lost forever. It's the story of Jacob "Dutch" Walz (Glenn Ford), a German immigrant in 1880 who, with a partner, tracks two men to the mine in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. When the men find it, Walz and his partner shoot them down. Then Walz cooly turns his rifle on his partner. It's also the present day story of Walz' grandson, Barry Storm (William Prince), who is searching for the mine again. A generation and a half ago his grandfather disappeared, taking the secret of the mine with him. Storm is determined to find the place, but a killer has been murdering prospectors who have gotten too close to where the mine might be.
The movie is oddly constructed but still works well. Three quarters of the time is a flashback to Jacob Walz, his search for the mine and his entanglement with Julia Thomas (Ida Lupino), a woman as ruthless as he, and her husband, Pete (Gig Young), a jealous and weak man. Bracketing this story is Barry Storm. At first, Storm is following a man who is confident he knows where the Lost Dutchman ... Read More
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