- Diamond City (film)
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Diamond City is a 1949 British drama film directed by David MacDonald and starring David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors and Niall MacGinnis.[1]
Plot
After the discovery and exploitation of a new diamond mine in South Africa, lawman Stafford Parker tries to maintain order in the ramshackle mining town that springs up around it.[2][3]
Cast
- David Farrar - Stafford Parker
- Honor Blackman - Mary Hart
- Diana Dors - Dora
- Niall MacGinnis - Muller
- Andrew Crawford - David Raymond
- Mervyn Johns - Hart
- Phyllis Monkman - Ma Bracken
- Hal Osmond - Brandy Bill
- Bill Owen - Pinto
- Philo Hauser - Piet Quieman
- John Blythe - Izzy Cohen
- Dennis Vance - John Albert Rogers
- Norris Smith - Jan Bloem
- John Salew - Dr. Woods
- Tony Quinn - Vanderbyl
- Ronald Adam - Robert Southey
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041294/
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/31282
- ^ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1174593/index.html
The films of David MacDonald 1930s The Last Curtain (1937) • It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937) • Death Croons the Blues (1937) • Riding High (1937) • Make It Three (1938) • A Spot of Bother (1938) • Meet Mr. Penny (1938) • This Man Is News (1938) • Dead Men Tell No Tales (1939)1940s The Midas Touch (1940) • This Man in Paris (1940) • Spies of the Air (1940) • Law and Disorder (1940) • This England (1941) • The Brothers (1947) • Snowbound (1948) • Good-Time Girl (1948) • The Bad Lord Byron (1949) • Christopher Columbus (1949) • Diamond City (1949)1950s Cairo Road (1950) • The Adventurers (1951) • The Lost Hours (1952) • Tread Softly (1952) • Devil Girl from Mars (1954) • One Just Man (1954) • The Yellow Robe (1954) • Three Cornered Fate (1955) • Final Column (1955) • Triple Blackmail (1955) • Man in Demand (1955) • Alias John Preston (1955) • Small Hotel (1957) • The Moonraker (1958) • A Lady Mislaid (1958)1960s Petticoat Pirates (1961) • The Golden Rabbit (1962)Categories:- 1940s British film stubs
- 1949 films
- British films
- 1940s adventure films
- Adventure drama films
- English-language films
- Films directed by David MacDonald
- Films set in Africa
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