Treasure of the Golden Condor
{{Short description|1953 film by Delmer Daves}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Treasure of the Golden Condor
| image = Treasure of the Golden Condor FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption =
| director = Delmer Daves
| producer = Jules Buck
| based_on = {{based on|Benjamin Blake
1941 novel|Edison Marshall}}
| writer = Delmer Daves
| narrator = Cornel Wilde
| starring = Cornel Wilde
Constance Smith
Finlay Currie
Walter Hampden
Anne Bancroft
| music = Sol Kaplan
| cinematography = Edward Cronjager
| editing = Robert L. Simpson
| studio = 20th Century Fox
| distributor = 20th Century Fox
| released = {{film date|1953|2|4|Los Angeles}}
| runtime = 93 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $1,220,000Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-4244-1}}. p248
| gross = $1.2 million (US rentals)'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
}}
Treasure of the Golden Condor is a 1953 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Delmer Daves, starring Cornel Wilde and Constance Smith, and released by Twentieth Century Fox.{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/93881/treasure-of-the-golden-condor |title=Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953) – Overview |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=November 4, 2018}} The film is a remake of the 1942 film Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, which starred Tyrone Power. Both films were based on Benjamin Blake (1941), a novel by Edison Marshall.
Plot
Jean Paul (Cornel Wilde) is a Frenchman, who is cheated of his birthright by his deceitful uncle, Marquis de St Malo (George Macready).
Cast
- Cornel Wilde as Jean Paul
- Constance Smith as Clara MacDougal
- Finlay Currie as MacDougal
- Walter Hampden as Pierre Champlain
- Anne Bancroft as Marie, Comtesse de St. Malo
- George Macready as Marquis de St. Malo
- Fay Wray as Annette, Marquise de St. Malo
- Leo G. Carroll as Raoul Dondel
- Konstantin Shayne as Father Benoit
- House Peters as Magistrate (uncredited)
- Robert Blake as Stable Boy (uncredited)
- May Wynn as Maid (uncredited)
- Harry Cording as Breton (uncredited)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0046457}}
- {{TCMDb title|93881}}
- {{AFI film|id=51082|title=Treasure of the Golden Condor}}
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Category:20th Century Fox films
Category:American adventure films
Category:Remakes of American films
Category:1950s English-language films
Category:Films based on American novels
Category:Films directed by Delmer Daves
Category:Films scored by Sol Kaplan
Category:Films set in Guatemala
Category:Films set in the 18th century