Cornel Wilde

Constance Smith

Anne Bancroft

Fay Wray

Finlay Currie

Walter Hampden

George Macready

Leo G. Carroll

Konstantin Shayne

Robert Blake

Delmer Daves

Sol Kaplan

Edward Cronjager

Arthur Lueker

Alfred Newman

Paul S. Fox

Ben Nye

Dorothy Jeakins

Harry M. Leonard

Thomas Little

Alfred Bruzlin

Charles LeMaire

Ray Kellogg

Edward B. Powell

Robert L. Simpson

Jules Buck

Lyle R. Wheeler

Albert Hogsett

Edison Marshall

Adventure

Treasure of the Golden Condor

20th Century Fox

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Delmer Daves has assembled an impressive cast but they all rather just go through the motions in this routine swashbuckler. Cornel Wilde takes top billing as the dispossessed "Jean-Paul" who finds himself robbed of his inheritance. He has but one chance to avenge things - and that is to head to remote Guatemala and seek out a treasure that, Monte-Cristo style - will help him right the wrongs done to him. Were it ever to have escaped the confines of the studio, then perhaps it might have delivered a bit better but the action scenes are all too stage-bound and the jungle looks no more authentic than the greenhouse at Kew. Anne Bancroft brings some glamour as the "Comtesse" and George Macready some menace as the scheming "Marquis" but it's all rather too predictable and Wilde is nowhere near his charming, charismatic - or acrobatic - best. It's watchable and as a fan of the genre i still quite enjoyed it - but it isn't very good and is, frankly, instantly forgettable.

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