Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners can make a killing in the international gold market.
Direction
Peter R. Hunt's Bond-honed set pieces almost hold up.
Practical Effects
Actual flooded mine sequences—no CGI, all chaos.
Director
Peter R. Hunt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Peter R. Hunt edited the first five Bond films before directing On Her Majesty's Secret Service—Gold was his attempt to cash in on that pedigree.
Released during the 1970s gold boom, the film's financial conspiracy mirrored real speculation fears; South African mining interests reportedly hated its portrayal.
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