The Adventurers (1951 film)

The Adventurers is a 1951 British adventure film directed by David MacDonald and starring Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond and Dennis Price. In the wake of the Boer War several men journey into the South African veldt in search of diamonds. The film was cut byminutes for its U.S. release, and was twice retitled, as Fortune in Diamonds and The Great Adventure.

The film was originally known as The South Africa Story. It had its world premiere aboard the Queen Mary liner.Allmovie noted an African variation of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Adventurers is buoyed by an unusually vicious performance by Jack Hawkins while the Radio Times wrote, this could have been quite stirring if it hadnt been morbidly underdirected at a snails pace by David MacDonald and TV Guide found that, despite its borrowings from Sierra Madre and from von Stroheims Greed, it is nevertheless an oftengripping film. ........

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