Golden Salamander (1950)
Overview
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
Cast
Trevor Howard
David Redfern
Anouk Aimée
Anna
Herbert Lom
Rankl
Walter Rilla
Serafis
Miles Malleson
Douvet
Jacques Sernas
Max
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Agno
Peter Copley
Aribi
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This is a slightly confused smuggling mystery with an oddly cast Trevor Howard as "David", a British archaeologist sent to Tunisia to supervise the removal of some artefacts. He arrives at the inn run by "Anna" (Anouk Aimée) and a slightly sinister pianist Wilfred Hyde-White ("Anjo"). Next thing, he is involved in a gun-smuggling racket with local hoodlum Herbert Lom ("Rankl") and his lobster fisherman pal "Max" (Jacques Sernas) whilst slowly falling in love with the much younger "Anna". It's a good looking film, but the story has more holes than a Dutch cheese with just way too many co-incidences. Howard is fine, but Lom features all too rarely to build any sense of suspense. Sernas is positively smouldering so why Anouk would prefer the older man is slightly bewildering; and the casting of Miles Malleson - ordinarily the archetypical British vicar/train enthusiast as "Douvet" - the local policeman, is just a bit too baffling to make much sense of the really thinly spread story.
