THEME EXPLORATION

gold prospecting

12 films · 1 director
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Two Men of the Desert
Two Men of the Desert
1913 · D.W. Griffith
Aguirre the Wrath of God
Aguirre the Wrath of God
1972 · Werner Herzog
Ali-Baba et les quarante voleurs
Ali-Baba et les quarante voleurs
1954 · Jacques Becker
A Romance of the Redwoods
A Romance of the Redwoods
1917 · Cecil B. DeMille
Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast
1935 · Howard Hawks & William Wyler
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold
1969 · J. Lee Thompson
Makwayela
Makwayela
1977 · Jean Rouch
Princess from the Moon
Princess from the Moon
1987 · Kon Ichikawa
The Flaw
The Flaw
1955 · Terence Fisher
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre *
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre *
1948 · John Huston
Acapulco
Acapulco
1952 · Emilio “Indio” Fernández
Dynamite Joe
Dynamite Joe
1968 · Antonio Margheriti
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Damien Leone Italy

His revisionist Westerns frequently feature gold prospecting as a backdrop for examining greed, ambition, and the violent frontier economy.