After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife, a headstrong daughter, and Miami mobsters who want to build a casino.
Direction
Roeg's fractured timeline and fever-dream Caribbean atmosphere
Acting
Hackman's volcanic, wounded performance as a man who can't stop
Cinematography
Alex Thomson's lurid, sun-drenched descent into paradise rot
Director
Nicolas Roeg
Gene Hackman
Jack McCann
Theresa Russell
Tracy
Rutger Hauer
Claude Maillot Van Horn
Jane Lapotaire
Helen McCann
Mickey Rourke
Aurelio D'Amato
Ed Lauter
Charles Perkins
Joe Pesci
Mayakofsky
Helena Kallianiotes
Frieda
Cavan Kendall
Pierre de Valois
Corin Redgrave
Worsley
Joe Spinell
Pete
Frank Pesce
Stefano
Norman Beaton
Byron Judson
Emrys James
Judge
James Faulkner
Roger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first film produced by the infamous Cannon Group's prestige division, intended to win Oscars. It didn't.
Loosely based on real prospector Alec McCrae and the mysterious 1943 murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas — a case involving the Duke of Windsor that remains officially unsolved.
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