Golden Salamander details
| Format: | U DVD |
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| Starring: | Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Anouk Aimee |
| Director: | Roland Neame |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller - Crime |
| Studio: | DB MUSIC SALES |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Golden Salamander |
U Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 33 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 12 Sep 2011 |
| Main languages: | English |
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I thought this might be worth watching----I was wrong !
By roncoach (365 reviews) from suffolk , 05 Feb 2013[Highly rated reviewer]
The ads say 'an exotic British thriller' , I'd never seen it,surprisingly, so I gave it a go with good expectations. I should have known by the fact that Trevor Howard was the star that it would disappoint. How did that bloke get to be a big star ? Yes, he was in some very good films----I can think offhand of 'Ryans Daughter' and 'Von Ryan's Express'----but they were from a later era and he was not the top billing actor in either of them. In his early British cinema days, he was usually a middle-class bore , always playing the same stuffy part of a professional gent : doctor, lawyer, officer,etc. In this one he is an archaeologist. And he is fairly atrocious. The memory of seeing him running hand in hand down the beach with Anouk Aimee, old enough to be his daughter, is a typical reminder for me of how absurd this film is. Add to that a setting in North Africa where all the charascters are either French or Arab but all of them speak in the same English accents they use in all their films, and the absurdity becomes worse. There is a much-used British actor of the period( whose name escapes me, sorry) who normally plays bungling old upper/middle class farts in most of his roles; here he plays the local gendarme , and ----yes you guessed it----he speaks with the same voice as though he were in Surrey and a bumbling old twit as usual. Good actors such as Herbert Lom and Wilfred Hyde-White are told by the director to have no trace of foreign accent----Hyde-White is simply ridiculous as a boozy French pianist in a sleazy cafe,attempting an English working-class accent and sporting designer subble : Wilfred Hyde-White of all people; well I ask yer ?? :))) The story is extremely thin, virtually non-existent, and the whole effort and the cost of some North African location shooting is a complete waste of time. Don't waste YOUR time on this poor vehicle---there are much better British films of that period available.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(2)I thought this might be worth watching----I was wrong !
By roncoach (365 reviews) from suffolk , 05 Feb 2013The ads say 'an exotic British thriller' , I'd never seen it,surprisingly, so I gave it a go with good expectations. I should have known by the fact that Trevor Howard was the star that it would disappoint. How did that bloke get to be a big star ? Yes, he was in some very good films----I can think offhand of 'Ryans Daughter' and 'Von Ryan's Express'----but they were from a later era and he was not the top billing actor in either of them. In his early British cinema days, he was usually a middle-class bore , always playing the same stuffy part of a professional gent : doctor, lawyer, officer,etc. In this one he is an archaeologist. And he is fairly atrocious. The memory of seeing him running hand in hand down the beach with Anouk Aimee, old enough to be his daughter, is a typical reminder for me of how absurd this film is. Add to that a setting in North Africa where all the charascters are either French or Arab but all of them speak in the same English accents they use in all their films, and the absurdity becomes worse. There is a much-used British actor of the period( whose name escapes me, sorry) who normally plays bungling old upper/middle class farts in most of his roles; here he plays the local gendarme , and ----yes you guessed it----he speaks with the same voice as though he were in Surrey and a bumbling old twit as usual. Good actors such as Herbert Lom and Wilfred Hyde-White are told by the director to have no trace of foreign accent----Hyde-White is simply ridiculous as a boozy French pianist in a sleazy cafe,attempting an English working-class accent and sporting designer subble : Wilfred Hyde-White of all people; well I ask yer ?? :))) The story is extremely thin, virtually non-existent, and the whole effort and the cost of some North African location shooting is a complete waste of time. Don't waste YOUR time on this poor vehicle---there are much better British films of that period available.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Pleasant enough
By itstinks (681 reviews) from North of Reading , 23 Jan 2012Exotic means all the outdoor shots were in Tunisia and therefore unimaginable to the majority of Brits at the time.
Trevor Howard stumbles on a gun running gang and has to decide whether to ignore it or do the right thing.
Having a grogeous but woodedn Anouk Aimee to impress helps to tilt the decision.
Twists and turns and shootouts help pass the time.- Was this review helpful to you?
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