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.
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
island
greed
wealth
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3.3 / 5
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Cast
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
Crew
Nicolas Roeg
Director
Stanley Myers
Original Music Composer
Alex Thomson
Director of Photography
Jeremy Thomas
Producer
Marit Allen
Costume Design
Anthony Waye
First Assistant Director
Margery Simkin
Casting
Kevin Kutchaver
Animation
John Wardlow
Location Manager
Stanley Myers
Conductor
François Rabbath
Additional Music
François Rabbath
Musician
Popular Reviews
13 reviews
Davis Carroll
7.0★ · 06/03/25
Drags a bit in the middle but the opening and the third act make this movie worth watching. Some fun experimentation from Roeg and Hackman is Hackman of course.
Drags a bit in the middle but the opening and the third act make this movie worth watching. Some fun experimentation from Roeg and Hackman is Hackman of course.
Micah
7.3★ · 01/31/25
It’s a bit grainy. But like bad quality wise. Could use a remaster.you’re kidding me. I just watched the new world yesterday and they use the exact same song. das rheingold vorspiel. What a funny coincidence. I don’t even know what’s happening. So that wasn’t a dream. I’m very very confused of what just happened. This was initially a rated x movie??? I guess I could see why with that once scene. Also terrible court scene. She would’ve been stopped in a second of talking. I’m so confused. He found gold. Was that not his gold? Whatever. It was ok. Great beginning but then it kinda went all over the place
It’s a bit grainy. But like bad quality wise. Could use a remaster.you’re kidding me. I just watched the new world yesterday and they use the exact same song. das rheingold vorspiel. What a funny coincidence. I don’t even know what’s happening. So that wasn’t a dream. I’m very very confused of what just happened. This was initially a rated x movie??? I guess I could see why with that once scene. Also terrible court scene. She would’ve been stopped in a second of talking. I’m so confused. He found gold. Was that not his gold? Whatever. It was ok. Great beginning but then it kinda went all over the place
Chris Marlow
4.6★ · 01/23/25
“Once, I had it all. Now…I just have everything.”
“Once, I had it all. Now…I just have everything.”
JK
7.0★ · 08/15/23
Opening half hour is as good as gets and the ending poem into credits hits nearly as hard as Walkabout's. More than worth slogging through one of the more excruciating courtroom scenes that I can think of.
Opening half hour is as good as gets and the ending poem into credits hits nearly as hard as Walkabout's. More than worth slogging through one of the more excruciating courtroom scenes that I can think of.
