Green Fire *** (1954, Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, Paul Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 6966

Director Andrew Marton’s 1954 MGM movie is a colourful South American romantic adventure yarn with Stewart Granger and Paul Douglas as emerald miners and Grace Kelly as a coffee plantation owner, who runs it with her brother Donald (John Ericson,).

Granger plays adventurer Rian X Mitchell, who is poised to realise his ambitions when he discovers an emerald mine in Colombia in South America. But to exploit it, he threatens the adjacent plantation of the lovely Catherine Knowland (Kelly) and so, ultimately, he must choose between his love for her and his cherished dream of finding the Green Fire emerald.

Marton directs with an eye to thrills and spills – and there are plenty of both, including mining accidents, an avalanche, a tropical storm and clashes with bandits. That would include the advertised ‘MINE CAVE-IN! Terrible peril in the heart of a lost mountain!’ And if romance is more to your taste, there are torrid clinches between Granger and amazing Grace.

Also in the cast are Murvyn Vye, José Torvay, Robert Tafur, Joe Dominguez, Nacho Galindo, Charlita, Natividad Vacío and Rico Alaniz.

Green Fire is directed by Andrew Marton, runs 100 minutes, is produced and released by MGM, is written by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, is shot in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor by Paul Vogel, is produced by Armand Deutsch, and is scored by Miklos Rozsa.

© Derek Winnert 2018 Classic Movie Review 6966

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