A Prize of Gold

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#Films_set_in_1948
A Prize of Gold is a 1955 Technicolor film noir crime film directed by Mark Robson partly filmed in West Berlin.
The film stars Richard Widmark as a United States Air Force Air Police Master Sergeant motivated by love and compassion to begin a life of crime.
It was based on the 1953 novel of the same title by Max Catto.
Master Sergeant Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark) is stationed in Berlin shortly after the end of World War II. He encounters a group of German orphans when one of them tries to steal his Jeep.
Joe finds Maria (Mai Zetterling), one of the orphans' caretakers, very attractive.
Maria is trying to take the children to Brazil, where they can start life anew.
It is being arranged by her employer, Hans Fischer, a very successful German contractor.
Hans tells Joe not to return.
After thinking it over, Joe disregards him and soon falls in love with Maria.
Maria breaks up with Joe, but Joe persists.
When he sees Maria returning home and reluctantly submitting to her boss's kisses, he fights with Hans, ending Hans's assistance with the travel arrangements.
His buddy, British Corps of Military Police Sergeant Roger Morris (George Cole), has hinted about stealing part of a fortune in recently discovered gold bullion being transferred to England via military transport in a series of four shipments.
Joe plans a daring hijacking of the airplane, aided greatly by the fact that he works for the Air Provost Marshal, who shares the security responsibility for the shipments with the British.
Roger's uncle Dan puts them in touch with Alfie Stratton, a semi-retired crook who can dispose of the gold.
Alfie insists that they use ex-RAF pilot Brian Hammell (Nigel Patric...




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1955 crime films
1955 films
American aviation films
American crime films
American films
Columbia Pictures films
English-language films
Films based on British novels
Films directed by Mark Robson
Films set in 1948