Gold [DVD]

If you have not seen Gold then you are missing out. It's an absolute gem from 1974 with the late great Sir Roger Moore at his best. For when it was made, Gold is a full on action thriller with some fantastic set pieces and practical stunts. It's so well made and exciting all the way through. I love this film and you should too.Last week we had the bad news that Roger Moore passed on which was a blow even though he was 89 years old. I was luckily enough to have seen him in November 2015 when I went to An Audience With Roger Moore. I nearly got to speak to him but my dreams shattered when the steward with the mic got a bit muddled up with who's turn it was to speak. Oh well at least I got to see one of my hero's.So now I have paid a small tribute to Roger, I encourage you to grab a copy of Gold and sit down with a bottle of wine and have your own tribute night to the legend. RIP.

For me "GOLD" is the late Roger Moore's best performance, he was brilliant in this film.Now the Blu-ray and sound quality is very nice, so well worth upgrading from your old DVD.You get a few Bonus features including a Roger Moore Documentary - A Matter of Class, which is on for 50 minutes, and Trailers.The film looks good in 2.35:1 ratio, with the Audio being in LPCM Stereo. The Disc is region free A,B,C. Sadly no subtitles.

I finally get a fully restored version after how many years?? Got to see this movie at the drake cinema Plymouth in 1974, same year Moore starred in the man with the golden gun (bliss!). Dad managed to get hold of a nice brochure (type programme) of the movie? Those were the days! Anyway enough reminiscence. Nice transfer to blu ray, with an equally good roger Moore doc plus the film trailer. Go get a copy.

The late great Sir Roger Moore, our finest actor and acting voice of recent years in best form in an all action movie about fixing the annual gold price, which at current gold price levels is a real possibility. Great film, great screenplay, Ray Milland, Susannah York, and the also recently deceased Bradford Dillman all add fine supporting roles as does the cast of black actors. Highly recommended.

When Roger Moore did something other than play 007 movies for laughs, he was actually a very good actor (check him out in The Sea Wolves, or Shout at the Devil). I remember this film from many years ago, and watching it again gave me a surprise as it's better than I remembered. The film has a good, if slightly predictable, storyline with a surprising amount of action. Certainly worth adding to the collection.

A group of high-flying businessmen plan to have 'South Africa's' largestgold mine flooded to inflate the gold prices world wide, making a financialkilling, to ensure success they have the mines chairman's son-in-law 'ManfredSteyner' in their pocket.When the mines general manager dies by accident whilst working in the mine,'Manfred' has lost his on-site puppet.'Manfred' manages to persuade father-in-law 'Hurry Hirschfeld' to appoint'Rod Slater' a young contender for the post,'Manfred' believes the cavalierattitude of the new appointment will be the ideal candidate to attributeblame to when the plan to 'blast' and flood the mine succeeds.The film builds up toward a tense and gripping conclusion.The picture quality on 'blu-ray' is superior to the DVD version, the soundhas been enhanced to a satisfactory level.The story is of corruption and greed with a total disregard for the livesthat would be lost if the plan succeeds.Enjoyable, well worth a spin.There is little in the way of additional features.....just a 'Roger Moore'documentary and trailers.

An overlooked classic in my opinion. I remember seeing this at the cinema in the 70s in a Roger Moore double bill with The Man With The Golden Gun. For many years the film has been available on various very sub-standard public domain DVDs. This Blu-ray is a revelation as the picture quality is very good for a film released over 40 years ago. The film is a well executed thriller set in South Africa and passes a very enjoyable couple of hours. Very pleased to have added this to my collection.

Gold certainly comes over better in widescreen than it does in the cropped and edited TV and Public Domain prints that have been floating around for years. The first of Roger Moore's trio of South African shot adventures (along with Shout at the Devil and The Wild Geese), it's very much of its time: this being the mid-70s, the villains are easy to spot - they're the ones who wash their hands, don't smoke and aren't any good in the sack - while the good guys aren't afraid of a little dirt or sleeping with the boss's wife. Along with Moore the credits are littered with many of the regular Bond team most of whom would go through the same flooding-the-mine routine again in A View To a Kill - but then, since the film's hiking-up-the-price-of-gold premise is borrowed from Goldfinger (albeit a tad more credible than setting off a nuclear bomb in Fort Knox), there's no real cause for complaint. Like Elmer Bernstein and Jimmy Helms' title song, it's not subtle but it's an entertaining two hours if it catches you in the right mood.Finally available in its original widescreen ratio on an English-friendly DVD in Germany and in a UK release from SlamDunk Media after years of terrible fullframe releases from Public Domain labels, there are no extras apart from a poorly reproduced stills gallery. Odeon's 2013 Blu-ray release also offers the film in its original 2.35:1 ratio in a good but not outstanding transfer, faring better on the extras front - the original theatrical trailer and a 45-minute mid-80s US documentary on Roger Moore.