Character Relationships in Gold

Rod Slater (played by Roger Moore) is a protagonist in Gold. Underground manager promoted to general manager by Steyner. Unaware of the syndicate's plot, he plants a safety charge to block the tunnel in case of a flood. After discovering the mine has breached and trapped workers, he returns to the disaster site. He descends into the flooding tunnels with Big King to reconnect the charge, surviving the explosion injured while his actions save the miners. Hurry Hirschfeld (played by Ray Milland) appears in Gold. Owner of Sonderditch gold mine and Terry's grandfather. He endorses Rod Slater for the general manager position after Steyner's manipulation. Following the successful rescue of the trapped miners, he watches Slater being carried out and remarks, You are a maniac with a satisfied smile, indicating his approval of Slater's actions. Manfred Steyner (played by Bradford Dillman) appears in Gold. Son-in-law of the mine owner and a member of an international syndicate plotting to flood the mine to manipulate gold prices. He hires Rod Slater as general manager and secretly allows Slater's affair with Terry to continue, using it as a distraction to disable the mine's safety charge. His plan fails, leading to his assassination by a syndicate co-conspirator.

Character Relationship Map: Gold

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Story Analysis

A tale of corporate sabotage, personal betrayal, and heroic rescue set against a gold mining crisis.

Plot Progression

  1. The Syndicate's Gambit
  2. The Unwitting Pawn
  3. Catastrophe and Descent
  4. Reckoning and Resolution

Directed by Peter R. Hunt

Gold (1974) · 5.8/10 · action, adventure, thriller

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