Fortune in Diamonds

7.5
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Run time: 86 min
  • Premiere: 1951. March 7.

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.

Discover

Dennis Price

Clive Hunter

Jack Hawkins

Pieter Brandt

Siobhán McKenna

Anne Hunter

Peter Hammond

Hendrik van Thaal

Bernard Lee

O'Connell

Ronald Adam

Van Thaal

Martin Boddey

Chief Engineer

Philip Ray

1st Man Restaurant

Walter Horsbrugh

2nd Man Restaurant

Dido Plumb

Bar Patron

Camera

Arthur Ibbetson

Camera Operator

Oswald Morris

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Jim Hydes

Makeup Artist

Directing

David Peers

Assistant Director

Don Weeks

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Aubrey Baring

Producer

Maxwell Setton

Producer

Sound

Gordon K. McCallum

Sound mixer

C. C. Stevens

Sound mixer

Writing

Robert Westerby

Screenplay

Camera

Arthur Ibbetson

Camera Operator

Oswald Morris

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Jim Hydes

Makeup Artist

Directing

David Peers

Assistant Director

Don Weeks

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Aubrey Baring

Producer

Maxwell Setton

Producer

Sound

Gordon K. McCallum

Sound mixer

C. C. Stevens

Sound mixer

Writing

Robert Westerby

Screenplay