Plunder of the Sun - Special Collector's Edition (1953)

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Date: March 4, 2012

Plunder of the Sun - Special Collector's Edition (1953)
I Saccheggiatori del Sole - Das geheimnisvolle Testament
A Film by John Farrow
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL Area 2 | 1,33:1 | 4:3 | Dolby Digital 5.1 | 01:19:24 | 5% Recovery | 6.55 Gb
Languages Available: Italian, English, German | Subtitle: English, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Spanish
Extra: Menù, Scene Selection, Commentary, On Location, Plundering History, The John Wayne Stock Company
Genre: Adventure

The story is told in flashback. American Al Colby (Glenn Ford) is in hot water with the Mexican government, and tries to set the record straight by telling his strange tale to an American Consul agent (Douglass Dumbrille). Some weeks before, in Havana, a destitute Colby is propositioned by Anna Luz (Patricia Medina), a supposedly wealthy woman anxious to have an extra-marital affair with the American drifter. "You know," he says, "I never thought I'd end up a gigolo, but why not?"

IMDB Rating: 6.5/10


They go to her house, only to find Fat Man Thomas Berrien (Francis L. Sullivan), a wheelchair-bound black market antiquities dealer awaiting their return. He offers Colby $1,000 to smuggle a small package into Mexico and return it to him after they've passed through customs. Colby agrees, but en route to Mexico aboard a small freighter, other mysterious types become involved, including Berrien's arch-rival, Jefferson (Sean McClory), a bleached-blond Irishman who looks like a cross between Peter Lorre's O'Hara in Beat the Devil and Robert Shaw's SMERSH agent in From Russia with Love. Also somehow entangled in all this is tramp (read: whore) Julie (a miscast Diana Lynn, weakly emulating Gloria Grahame) and her companion, Raul (Eduardo Noriega).


Colby eventually opens the package and examines its contents: three pages of ancient parchment and a carved jade disc. What does it mean? Will it lead Colby to some long-lost treasure? Can he find it before the others kill him? Who can he trust?

Pulp novelist Jonathan Latimer's screenplay (from David Dodge's novel) is ultimately quite unsatisfying, with Colby's actions at the climax unmotivated and unexplained, and other character relationships foggy or illogical. The character Julie's function in the story is especially unclear: she seems totally unnecessary to the plot and all but disappears without explanation in the final reels anyway.


On the plus side, it's refreshing to see all-American good guy Glenn play such a scummy, unscrupulous and hard-boiled character ("I"ll bet you beat women," Julie says. Colby's cooly casual answer: "When they need it."), and Ford is extremely good, nicely underplaying throughout. He's believably unfazed by the violence and unscrupulousness around him, and some of the film's best scenes detail his shrewdness in staying one step ahead of Jefferson and the others coveting those ancient parchment pages.

The supporting cast is also well above average. Francis L. Sullivan (Great Expectations) is excellent in the Sidney Greenstreet part, and Sean McClory, soon to be saddled with that terrible dialogue on Ring of Fear, gets to play a much more subtly menacing character here.


Director John Farrow and Mexican-based American DP Jack Draper lend the film some marvelous and authentic atmosphere, both in its bustling city scenes as well as the striking and vividly isolated archeological sites of Mitla and Monte Alban. The entire film was shot there and on stages at Churubusco Studios, and the film crew appears to have been given unlimited access to the ruins.


The excellent use of ancient ruins filmed on location in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley is Plunder of the Sun's (1953) greatest asset. As confirmed in the film's theatrical trailer, this quasi-noir treasure hunt is populated with characters obviously patterned after those in The Maltese Falcon (1941), and its screenplay gets singularly improbable and illogical toward the end, but undeniably drips with atmosphere, and the performances are generally very good.


..:: Italian synopsis ::..
Durante un viaggio a Cuba, Al Colby, un giovane americano, conosce Anna Luz, una ragazza che assiste un anziano antiquario paralizzato. Poiché è a corto di denaro, Al accetta di introdurre clandestinamente entro il confine messicano un misterioso pacchetto sigillato. Durante il viaggio in piroscafo, però, l'anziano muore ed Al rimane in possesso del misterioso plico. Quando lo apre, scopre che contiene tre antiche pergamene scritte in atzeco che illustrano la strada per la ricerca di un favoloso tesoro. Insieme ad Anna Luz, Al si reca dal professor Navarro, un noto studioso che è il padrino della ragazza, perché traduca le carte. Il ragazzo non si fida di Navarro e porta una copia delle pergamene da un altro studioso, Jefferson. Insieme, i due arrivano prima degli altri al nascondiglio del tesoro ma Jefferson, dopo aver ferito Al, fugge con la refurtiva. Solo con l'aiuto di Anna Luz e del suo padrino il tesoro sarà ritrovato e riconsegnato al governo messicano. Ad Al rimarrà l'amore.

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TITOLO ORIGINALE: Plunder of the Sun
GENERE: Avventura
REGIA: John Farrow
SCENEGGIATURA: Jonathan Latimer
ATTORI:
Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Sean McClory, Eduardo Noriega, Julio Villarreal, Charles Rooner, Douglass Dumbrille
Ruoli ed Interpreti

FOTOGRAFIA: Jack Draper
MONTAGGIO: Harry Marker
MUSICHE: Antonio Díaz Conde
PRODUZIONE: WAYNE-FELLOWS PRODUCTIONS
DISTRIBUZIONE: WARNER BROS.
PAESE: USA 1953
DURATA: 81 Min
FORMATO: B/N 35 MM

SOGGETTO:
romanzo omonimo di David Dodge

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