Rope of Sand

Rope of Sand

1949 · 104 min · EN · NR · 5.8 (24 votes)
Dir. William Dieterle · Starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Corinne Calvet, Sam Jaffe · Music Franz Waxman

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Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

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A sun-baked, morally ambiguous thriller where avarice and desperation simmer beneath a veneer of colonial order. Expect a slow-burn descent into treacherous dealings, punctuated by bursts of intense, high-stakes action.

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