A Prize of Gold (1955)
1h 38m | PG-13
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
Director: Mark Robson
Studio: Warwick Film Productions
Genre: Drama, War
Video: 720p
Cast
Richard Widmark
as Sgt. Joe Lawrence
Mai Zetterling
as Maria
Nigel Patrick
as Brian Hammell
George Cole
as Sgt. Roger Morris
Donald Wolfit
as Alfie Stratton
Joseph Tomelty
as Uncle Dan
Reviews
Richard Widmark was sometimes quite good in his more edgy, grittier parts - but shove him in an uniform and he is really just a pretty boy - like he is here. When a cache of gold is discovered by some remarkably honest folks dredging a river in Berlin, it is turned over to the joint British and American authorities and "Joe" (Widmark) is charged with shifting it. Meantime, he and his pal "Morris" (George Cole) have their jeep pinched by a youngster. Giving chase, he arrives at a bombed-out building being used as a makeshift orphanage by "Maria" (Mai Zetterling) and "Dr. Zachmann" (Karel Stepanek). He wants to help, and so with his pal and a pretty ruthless "Hammell" (Nigel Patrick) finds a way to divert the gold and... Donald Wolfit is quite effective as the pretty devious "Alfie", but the rest of this blurs a decent adventure caper with too much romance and Widmark really isn't on very good firm. The dialogue is wordy and rambling and though the ending is rather befitting - for Patrick anyway, it is all just a bit routine and humdrum.