I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

English gentlemanly hero, beautifully kittenish sexy heroine, outrageous, conspiratorial villain with audacious megalomaniac plan, crisp and colourful action-adventure, tribal dancing, grisly scenes, murder, sex, explosions, exotic travelogue locations, light aircraft aerial stunts, and an Oscar nominated score, and, of course Gold, and tonne$ of it. Trusted James Bond director and editor Peter R. Hunt gets the gig and delivers the action.

Interesting action-thriller concerning a private syndicate conspiring to influence the price of gold on the stock market, by flooding a mine under the control of one its members. Roger Moore plays Rod Slater the newly appointed mine GM, enlisted by owner Bradford Dillman to ostensibly carry out a plan to drill into an underground reservoir in which there are untapped gold deposits. Of course, Moore isn't in on the ruse to affect the stock market, and both he and his employees risk becoming collateral damage unless Dillman's plan can be foiled.Top-notch cast features Ray Milland as the mine's board director, his daughter played by Susannah York is Dillman's neglected wife who finds comfort in Moore's embrace, and Sir John Gielgud is the scheming syndicate boss, ruthless and double crossing in the extreme. Although Gielgud's role takes place in the boardroom back in London, his presence permeates the entire movie, such is his cold, sinister dominance. Gielgud's callous greed is shockingly immortalised in the scene in which he arranges for a Christmas 'present' to be sent to a betraying syndicate member that ends with catastrophic results. Long but relatively taut thriller has the ingredients for success, with realistic looking set design, commanding score, competently handled action sequences and stunt-work, and a plot that weaves an engaging tale of sinister ambition and double cross. Considering all its elements (brassy theme tune, comic book villains, Maurice Binder's title sequence), "Gold" is something of a Bond surrogate, leveraging off Moore's alter ego at the time, and incorporating all the villains and motifs appropriate for a 007 adventure - by any other name. Great cast, highly entertaining.

The film takes us to South Africa, Sonderditch mine.Men are working there when the tunnel collapses.Soon we find out it was no accident.The crooks come up with a plan to flood the mine in order to make a killing in the international gold market.Rod Slater, the newly appinted general manager has to deal with this problem.Peter R.Hunt is the director of Gold (1974) and it was written by Wilbur Smith and Stanley Price.Roger Moore plays Rod Slater.There's that certain James Bond feel in this movie.And also Rod has some action with a beautiful woman.She's Terry Steiner, played by Susannah York.The legendary Ray Milland plays Hurry Hirschfeld.Also legendary Sir John Gielgud plays Farrell.This is not a masterpiece as a movie but it has something good in it.Those moments at the mine are somewhat claustrophobic.See this movie if you want some adventurous action.

Not a particularly good film. The story plods along at an incredibly slow rate and is very predictable. It is a hard slog to watch the whole thing through in one sitting. Each catastrophe that occurs is overworked and expanded far more than is necessary with an excessive amount of time wasted on each event.There are also numerous inconsistencies with the amount of people involved in each disaster, the size of the mine and how long each rescue takes.That being said, Ray Milland is absolutely superb as the gruff gold mine chairman, playing the grumpy character he mastered in his later years showing a lack of patience with all around him. The desperation he shows when shouting at the other members of the bowling team is priceless.Fans of Roger Moore will also appreciate his performance and there is a certain chemistry between Moore and Susannah York - particularly in the bath scene! A certain amount of ad-libbing I wonder!The question has to be how John Gielgud was persuaded to take part. A very small part which was hardly worthy of such a great actor.If you enjoy either Milland or Moore, and can put up with a huge number of bad bits, this film may be worth watching just the once.