Rope of Sand

  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Thriller
8/3/1949
104
NR

Savage Greed...Sultry Love...Wild Adventure!

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Paul Henreid is actually quite menacing here, as the domineering commandant "Vogel". He is charged with making sure that nothing is smuggled out of the diamond mines under his charge. Burt Lancaster ("Davis") arrives back after a previous encounter with this nemesis, this time determined to retrace his steps and recover the large treasure he was forced to abandon previously. What now ensues delivers us a pretty well-trodden narrative as these two men try to outwit the other. The duplicitous mine manager "Martingale" (Claude Rains) alights on a cunning plan to get "Suzanne" (Corinne Calvet) to use her wiles on "Davis" to try and discover the location of the lode - but she has other ideas! With the seedy "Toady" (Peter Lorre) also whispering ...

        April 4, 2022

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