Lust for Gold

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Audience Member This movie peaked my curiosity about the Lost Dutchman's Mine when I was about 10 yeasr old back in the 1960s. I've had a life time interest in it and have watched many documentaries concerning the hunt for it. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Glen Ford doing his best to imitate a German accent is pretty humorous, but all joking aside this low-budget Columbia-made adventure movie is overall a great film; don't let the cliche, generic title fool you. It took me a while to really grasp the vibe of the movie; at first it seems like there are two loosely related stories being told about gold hidden in the mountains of Arizona. My patience held out and as a result I saw the flashback (the majority of the film) connect with the young man narrating the beginning of the movie about his experience hunting for the hidden gold his grandfather discovered back in the 1870's. Ida Lupino gives a great performance in this film; can't say the same for Glen Ford or any of the other cast members, so I wouldn't recommend this one to any Glen Ford fans. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I was a bit confused when I started watching this film because I thought it was a western vehicle for Glenn Ford and Ida Lupino, but when neither of them show up for the first 20 minutes of the film, I started wondering if I'd recorded the right film. It was the right film, but the story unfolds in an unnecessary wrap around story about the grandson of Ford searching for his grandfather's lost gold mine. The story of prospector Ford and his greedy wife Lupino is an entertaining western melodrama, but the wraparound story just seemed like filler and bogged the film down. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member There's mystery, action, murders, romance, treasure, singing, double-crossing & more in this exciting western--Dark, Unembridled Lust!! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member In my opinion, a poor man's TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Not bad for 1949 but this one is showing its age. Glenn Ford in a rare unlikable character role for him. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member The framing story is weak but the main one with Ida and Glenn is very good as are they. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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