Plunder of the Sun
1953 film by John Farrow
- August 26, 1953 (1953-08-26) (New York City)
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Plunder of the Sun is a 1949 novel written by David Dodge about the hunt for ancient Peruvian treasure. It was adapted for the November 8, 1949 episode of the radio series Escape and later into the 1953 film noir of the same title, starring Glenn Ford and with the location changed from Peru to Mexico.
Plot
Adventurer Al Colby is persuaded by Anna Luz and her antiquities-collector husband Thomas Berrien to help them smuggle a parcel into Mexico where its true value can be ascertained. Warned that a man named Jefferson, who is traveling on the same freighter, might try to steal the parcel, Colby forms a partnership with Jefferson following Berrien's fatal heart attack aboard the ship. Jefferson betrays and shoots Colby, but Colby saves himself and the rare documents in time. They will be returned to a museum while he and Anna can enjoy a $25,000 reward.
Cast
- Glenn Ford as Al Colby
- Diana Lynn as Julie Barnes
- Patricia Medina as Anna Luz
- Francis L. Sullivan as Thomas Berrien
- Sean McClory as Jefferson
- Eduardo Noriega as Raul Cornejo
- Julio Villarreal as Ulbaldo Navarro
- Charles Rooner as Captain Bergman
- Douglass Dumbrille as Consul
Gallery
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Glenn Ford
References
- ^ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plunder of the Sun (film).
- Plunder of the Sun at IMDb
- Plunder of the Sun at AllMovie
- Plunder of the Sun at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by John Farrow
- The Spectacle Maker (1934) (short)
- Tarzan Escapes (1936) (partial)
- Men in Exile (1937)
- West of Shanghai (1937)
- She Loved a Fireman (1937)
- Broadway Musketeers (1938)
- Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)
- The Invisible Menace (1938)
- My Bill (1938)
- Comet Over Broadway (1938) (uncredited)
- Women in the Wind (1939)
- The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
- Sorority House (1939)
- Five Came Back (1939)
- Full Confession (1939)
- Reno (1939)
- A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
- Married and in Love (1940)
- Wake Island (1942)
- Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
- China (1943)
- The Hitler Gang (1944)
- You Came Along (1945)
- Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
- California (1947)
- Blaze of Noon (1947)
- Calcutta (1947)
- Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
- Beyond Glory (1948)
- The Big Clock (1948)
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
- Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
- Alias Nick Beal (1949)
- Where Danger Lives (1950)
- Copper Canyon (1950)
- Submarine Command (1951)
- His Kind of Woman (1951)
- Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
- Hondo (1953)
- Plunder of the Sun (1953)
- Botany Bay (1953)
- A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
- The Sea Chase (1955)
- Back from Eternity (1956)
- The Unholy Wife (1957)
- John Paul Jones (1959)
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