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Crime thriller starring Trevor Howard. A man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates.
Golden Salamander (1950)
Studio: J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Director: Ronald Neame
Writer: Lesley Storm
Cast: Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimée
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[@alext8828]

Ozwald Morris did a beautiful job photographing this film. Black and white can be wonderful.

[@cattymajiv]

I disagree. B+W shows lack all depth and detail. They look flat and boring, with backgrounds that look like grey mush, and no character or emotion to the faces. Color is always better! Whether actual color or colorization, it improves movies immensely!

[@alext8828]

@@cattymajiv I disagree with your disagreement.

[@cattymajiv]

@@alext8828 Fair enough. I have no problem with that. Cheers! 😉 ✌🏼

[@artroraback8663]

I've never been disappointed with any Trevor Howard movies.

[@rowley555]

I agree...he was truly a great actor

[@eshaibraheem4218]

. too that thought, IYes

[@lovebaja]

My favorite Trevor Howard movie is The Sea Wolves. Have seen it at least 10 times.

[@peterhunt5890]

Love all his films he was just FANTASTIC!

[@BackSeatHump]

I thought it was a Herbert Lom movie.

[@basicrockandmorsongs8034]

I love these old movies. The romantic human side of life is the most important.

[@evetko]

Just loved the suspense of a British adventure film and Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom, and Wilfrid Hyde-White's key performances. There's a good moral to this story and clever deliberation and delivery of the truth.

[@SuperIliad]

Golden Salamander, released 1 February 1950, London, UK). Trevor Howard as David Redfern; Anouk Aimée (as Anouk) as Anna; Herbert Lom as Rankl; Walter Rilla as Serafis; Miles Malleson as Douvet; Jacques Sernas as Max; Wilfrid Hyde-White (as Wilfred Hyde-White) as Agno; Peter Copley as Aribi; Marcel Poncin as Dommic; Kathleen Boutall as Mme. Guillard; Eugene Deckers, Police Chief; Percy Walsh as Guillard; Sybille Binder as Mme. Labree; Chris Adcock, Soldier in Cafe des Amis; Valentine Dyall as Ben Ahrim; Henry Edwards as Jeffries.

[@STORMY0O]

Wow! What a movie!

[@rodolfoadvincula3657]

😢

[@colincampbell9825]

A charming, understated and subtle performance by Wilfred Hyde White

[@garybrockwell2031]

Without White Hair💯🎬🇬🇧

[@poorthing]

When I saw his name- I hit PLAY

[@kennethbooker4955]

It’s good to have these films on you tube

[@zeffiraananas3999]

The scene where the herd of goats interrupts murder: brilliant

[@jasonking6892]

Trevor Howard top class 👍🇬🇧

[@danielboone4001]

18 year old Anouk was a stunning beauty. I'm going to have to look for other movies she did.

[@vHumboldt77]

She was still beautiful half a century later featuring Letizia Ramolino in Napoleon (2002)!

[@SSGTA440]

Yup, still beautiful even in 2020....still working.....an amazing woman.......

[@sharksport01]

Max was too.

[@elijaprice]

She was 18?? Jeez, I mean I thought he looked more like her dad than her boyfriend, but even still, how old was Trevor Howard here? 40? Although I know it did used to be more like that back in the day, in the currency of marriage, ladies had their youthful beauty, men had their middle aged money/career. Whereas now ladies have their youthful beauty and their middle aged beauty, and men have our.......umm..........beards? I guess?

[@heatherbowlan1961]

Thank you I enjoyed this old classic very much ,thanks for sharing it with the people who love and cherish old classics .❤️🙏🇨🇦

[@katyaflippinov9197]

Love the man with the big gong whacker as he introduces J. Arthur Rank Organisation and almost always a great film.

[@Poguemuhone]

I think his name is,,Bombardier Billy Wells,, it was a question on who wants to be a millionaire.

[@CareelBay]

"I've never listened to such bombastic nonsense in all my life" !! LOLOL! Talk about breaking the tension, what a typically British response! This is a great film, thanks so much for posting.

[@DavidRice111]

"They are the distilled essence of my own thought." Love it!

[@gailjarvis2592]

Oh, wasn't that a divine line? No one even thinks like that now. No distillation.

[@artistknownasssilas]

Wilfred Hyde White. Has he always been an old man? A great entertaining film with some striking performances.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

I think he was born before television and nearly a quarter of a century before 'The talkies'. So he did not need a lot of ageing make-up to make him look older. Did you know he was born 120 years ago on May the 12th?

[@ioriedwards7554]

Great film. Trevor Howard, the gallant gentleman but can dish it out when needed.

[@rowley555]

In "They made me a Fugitive" Mr. Howard really dished it out....:-)

[@jamesbueker11]

It’s a very good movie. Reminds of Casablanca with more tension and intrigue. Awesome work of art. Great joy to watch.

[@rext8949]

For a movie of its time it's well paced and interesting. Great way to see such exotic places as they existed then rather than the bland tourist clones that many have been converted to.

[@janetleeadams7287]

According to wikipedia, this movie was filmed in Pinewood Studios in England ! I lived in Tunis fora year and I was looking forward to seeing old sites, but so far, it is generic market scene. I have visited a lot of markets, and this is similar to most. But I guess it is all a film set.

[@cattymajiv]

@@janetleeadams7287 Also according to Wikipedia a lot of it was filmed on location in Tunis and Carthage. Maybe you should reread the Wikipedia article. That normally means most of the indoor scenes were done on a sound stage at Pinewoods, but the outdoor ones were done on the location, in this case Tunis and Carthage. I wasn't surprised, because to duplicate the locations and make them look that real would cost more than actually going there.

[@janetleeadams7287]

@@cattymajiv ok

[@cattymajiv]

@@janetleeadams7287 I should have said that I meant no criticism of you. It's quite possible that the part of the article saying that some of it was filmed in Tunis and Carthage was added later, after you had already read it. All Wikipedia articles are built slowly, bit by bit, by different people adding peices to them, so many of the articles are incomplete, with bits of info missing, and when you go back later on, you find new stuff has been added. That's probably what happened here. I was glad to find that at least the outdoor scenery is real! It just feels better somehow. And I wouldn't have thought to check without your comment, so thanks for that! 😉 ✌🏼

[@janetleeadams7287]

@@cattymajiv no problem. I am happy to have the reminder to check my words and not make hasty responses !

[@mariacastro2682]

Just finished watching this film what a gem! I never knew it even existed I’ve been watching these beautiful English films that are all superb on your site thank you so much for making them available!

[@patriciamnoel5517]

Excellent movie and with Trevor Howard, a great actor! I realized as I kept trying to place Herbert Lom's face that he was in the Pink Panther movies as Inspector crazy Clousseau's boss who would get his nervous eye tick🤪 when Clouseau, actor and comedian Peter Sellers, would be around him! The pretty young girl, Anouk, as she established herself as an actor went by the name Anouk Aimee, and still a beauty! Amazing! Thank You for uploading this entertaining movie! Keep them coming!👍🤗📽♥️

[@richardaverage4287]

Herbert Lom, one of my favorite actors...watch him in Dual Alibi, The Dark Tower and Snowbound with a cast of British greats like Robert Newton, Denis Price and Stanley Holloway

[@cattymajiv]

Yes. He was great!

[@almeggs3247]

Never run away from evil. One must face it head on! And that’s the moral we all better face NOW ,!

[@sunillazar4997]

TRUE; however, sometimes 'DISCRETION IS THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR'.

[@mortimerzilch2608]

tell that to the lay Catholics dealing with a gay-boy clergy.

[@brucec2635]

So what is evil. It seems quite fluid now adays!! How silly of me ..it is followers on twitter or likes on facebook.

[@publicmail2]

@@brucec2635 if you are not sure leave it to others to fight it.

[@publicmail2]

@@CLASSICALFAN100 imagine any other organization with widespread molestation and it survives? How brainwashed the people are.

[@martentrudeau6948]

Organized crime usually wins in real life, but in movies the hero wins. Good movie, great actors and I enjoyed it.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Seems our view points differ vastly where history of Organised Crime is littered with dead criminals and no winners. One Boss after another is murdered by another Boss going back even before Al Capone. Not all were murdered or shot in the back. Frank Nitti blew his own brains out. Of course there may be a few still living in the Twenty-Twenties. But they obly live as a hunted speices. Not only in the USA but in Itally also. So rather than in 'real life' it seems more like in real death. Let us not make any mistake. Those real life gangster criminals were rotten victimisers, theives, robbers, murderers, racketeers, pimps, and evil drug dealers.

[@martentrudeau6948]

@@MikeGreenwood51 ~ The biggest criminals are respectable citizens, the elite in business, politics, government and even religion. They own and run the world.

[@cattymajiv]

Don't forget the biggest and worst criminal of all, Donnie Diapers Trump, the farting father of crime!

[@victorireland8913]

Brilliant filmmaking in every way. My pulse is still palpitating. It has it all. Superb cast maintained tension and keeps you guessing right to the final take. Trevor Howard was a in a class of his own. Isn’t this Anouk, Anouk Aimee?

[@laurastortoni-hager1510]

Yes

[@kavithav9977]

I have decided to watch this movie because of your comment

[@JDSFLA]

Yes aged 18, and 17 years later in "A man and a Woman" she remained stunningly beautiful.

[@ottdog1952]

Wonderful movie with great actors like Trevor Howard and Herbert Lom. @15:12, I also learned the origin of the expression "chalk it up", i.e. writing in chalk on a board people's bar tabs.

[@SampoLapilill]

A brilliant film I first saw as a teenager in the 1050's. Something of a major release when it first came out in 1950 with all bells and whistles. Trevor Howard was already an established star of the silver screen and Herbert Lom who was my favourite in this film was already established as the archetypal sinister European villain. cf 'The Ringer' with Donald Wolfitt.

[@jackmcnally9237]

Poor ignorant shite ye are !

[@marbleman52]

I really liked this, especially having Trevor Howard and Wilford-Hyde White in it...Excellent..!!

[@vHumboldt77]

Wilford-Hyde White looks so different from Mr. Pickering's role some years leater!

[@MartinCanada]

@@vHumboldt77 Or Wilford-Hyde White's role as Crabbitt (of the C.R.S. of G.H.Q.) in The Third Man.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.” “It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”― Ian McEwan, Atonement.

[@gailjarvis2592]

Are these quotes from The Department For Transport & Travel?

[@jeanfleetwood1971]

SO BEAUTIFUL FRENCH SUPERSTAR ANOUK AIMEE !!!!!

[@davidhewson8605]

Acting top notch . Herbert Lomm plays bad guys , like no other . French fifa , hot as your Citroën. Jolly good show !. 😮😮😮🎉 Thanks playmates. Dave

[@JDSFLA]

This is a movie well worth seeing. The presence of 18 year old Anouk Aimee, most famously known for staring in "A man and a Woman" (1966), alone commands your viewing. Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom and Wilfrid Hyde-White, each of which had decades long film careers, complete this star laden movie.

[@cattymajiv]

She had bit parts in SO many old B+W British films! I don't know if they were credited or not. They should be, since they are speaking parts, and they've usually added some lightheartedness to the film, though they usually had no name, except being listed as Girl On Train, or Girl In Store. But now that all the movie channels are trying to evade copyright strikes (unsuccessfully) by butchering films, we are unable to find out who played which parts, because they are all cutting off the starting or ending credits, or both. (KZbin is not fooled by such simplistic tricks. So they wreck them for nothing!) In one of them she was 1 of 2 lovely French girls on a train, sisters, who want to have a man take their new hats through customs for them, so they don't get charged duties for them. That was either in Sleeping Car To Trieste, or a similar one with a disappearing traveller. There are a lot more films where she had those short parts as a very pretty French girl, and her voice and accent (as well as her face of course) are quite recognizable. As a Canadian, I'm used to Francophones and their accents. There are many different ones from different regions of Canada and France, just as there are many different English accents. I'm sure that applies to all languages. So if you enjoy classic movies from the UK, keep your eyes and ears open for her in small parts. Maybe you'll even get lucky, and find the odd film that has still got the credits intact!

[@chriscornwell1660]

Very good movie! Way ahead of its time. Thank you for posting. I love Trevor Howard in pretty much everything!

[@JeffMathias]

It has more of a 60’s feel.

[@bethwaltz2607]

Worth watching for a very young Anouk Aimee -- and a very well-directed appearance by Wilfrid Hyde-White.

[@garybrockwell2031]

An Hyde-White without white hair?? Don't see that much🇬🇧🎬

[@SuperIliad]

I've seen more J. Arthur Rank movies than I can count and not a bad one.

[@cattymajiv]

I totally agree!

[@rowley555]

Excellent film...suspenseful...and I love the "Clopin Clopant" theme. In recent times, Trevor Howard is remembered as a character actor but earlier in his career he played romantic leads, rather believeably I must add. I for one fell in love with him in "Brief Encounter." Those who find the pairing of Howard with Aimee a stretch most likely don't know that in real life they had a relationship.

[@surreygirl2075]

The actor Leslie Howard lived In Westcott surrey the plane he was in was shot down over the bay of biscay june 1941 he was returning from Portugal l liked the plot and reminds me of my ex husband we used to swim in the sea injoyed the film good bye Trevor Howard and wilfred

[@lorenzomontoya1260]

I was wondering if her last name was missing..

[@rowley555]

@@lorenzomontoya1260 She started her career being billed as Anouk. Later on she used Anouk Aimée.

[@cattymajiv]

@@surreygirl2075 I think you are mixing up Leslie and Trevor aren't you? Leslie's plane was indeed shot down. But that has nothing to do with Trevor.

[@markie1aa]

Very good but please don't cut off the end credits - it's all part of the enjoyment & part of the film!

[@gogglesgrath280]

Agree. The theme played by the piano player and throughout the movie had strains contained in a song "Clopin Clopon" (sp?) on one of Barbara Streisand's first albums "Je m'appelle Barbara" with a lot of songs composed by Michel Legrand. Wish I could have seen the credits.

[@cattymajiv]

I despise when they do that! And their reasoning for it is garbage. It does NOT help to evade copyright strikes. KZbin uses software to find them. So they wreck good movies for nothing. It's sheer stupidity!

[@zthetha]

Ronald Neame produced and directed some of the very best British movies of all time in his association with David Lean and Alec Guiness. For anyone who has not seen it I highly recommend his adaptation of Joyce Cary's book 'The Horse's Mouth' with Guiness acting his socks off as Gully Jimson with paintings by John Bratby.

[@mortimerzilch2608]

"The Card" is good...and "Our Man in Havana" is beyond the ken.

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

Here's an excellent print of "The Horse's Mouth" from the Internet Archive. (Alec Guinness wrote the screenplay, too!): archive.org/details/TheHorsesMouth1958LEG

[@alanaronald244]

My fave film ever: RIP Sir Alec Guiness.

[@cattymajiv]

@@CLASSICALFAN100 Thank you very much! I just came back from watching it there, after using the link you provided. As always, Alec Guinness was very funny, and the whole film was very well done. I'm so glad you recommended it! What a lovely, colorful, comedy about art!

[@angelwoman9235]

Many years ago I had a 'crush' on Trevor Howard ! I thought he was the bees knees !!! Herbert Lom was always a 'Baddy' in many films !!

[@davidbrownlee2102]

Fantastic cast, script & direction. 10/10.

[@stevengrotte2987]

Thank you, I have seen it several times & will enjoy it again.

[@lindamcdermott2205]

Anouk moves with the grace of a dancer and runs like a gazelle. She was only 18 when she made this film and I see, she did study ballet.

[@cattymajiv]

She is just so lovely! I see her in many small parts in many old British movies. The parts are usually smaller than in this movie, but I find her quite easily recognizable.

[@alexandradane3672]

A really excellent movie -thank you Retrospective . A pity though that it had to be interrupted literally every 3/5 minutes with adverts , albeit short one but worth putting up with !

[@larrywhited3070]

I had reached the point that I seldom would watch these old movies even though I often really liked them. The ads were not only too interrupting, sometimes they were downright disgusting. I decided to pay for the KZbin Premium commercial-free option. (Paid $140 for a year, as of February 2024.) For me with the number of these older movies I watch the service is well worth it. Warning though: if you subscribe SAVE your confirmation email since if you clear your viewing history you will have to sign in again, which simply involves clicking on the provided link in that original confirmation email.

[@marywaldron2695]

If the Salamander is gold and some of the other relics, they would of been long gone with that den of theives and smugglers.Not a bad little movie, good cast.😊

[@larrywhited3070]

I thought the first third was slow, but then things started to get interesting. The middle third began to develop the plot very well. The last third was tense and keeps you guessing all the way as to exactly how things will work out. The outline that is provided accurately calls the movie a thriller, and with its twists & turns it certainly is. Stick with it; you won't be disappointed.

[@faithbuilder1320]

A happy ending, but a dark movie! Light years better than most of the one's of today.

[@lindamcdermott2205]

Who would know an archeologist could throw such a good punch?

[@grimtt]

linda mcdermott Indiana Jones? 😉

[@stevecharman8420]

Perhaps he was a boxing champ at Cambridge? ;)

[@Mr22thou]

Very good movie which I'd never seen before. I enjoyed the story and the performances, as well as the exotic atmosphere and wonderful interiors and exteriors. Well worth another watch.

[@Mr22thou]

The opening scene reminds me of the opening of "the Old Dark House." Getting lost/stranded on a dark, stormy night...really puts one in a place & mood for the story to come, though the two stories could hardly be more different. This whole film is so wonderfully atmospheric. I love it!

[@laurarodriguezdiaz6489]

Exotic?you must be a gentleman of the "good all days'"

[@tinapeters5725]

Thank you for this film, I wasn't sure, but Trevor Howard's name attracted my attention, I throughly enjoyed it, Herbert Lom, an excellent baddie, and one and only Wilfred Hyde White, on that note was Mr Hyde White, ever young? he seemed to have a long career, but was always an old man :) :) Thank you

[@anneotoole7241]

I agree about.......wilfred Hyde WHITE...

[@richardrodahaffer9357]

Aa

[@columbmurray]

Wilfred Hyde White was somewhat of a reconter , bon vivant and womaniser. His many girlfriends he lured by offering them a part in films - turned out to be waitresses etc. In The Third Man his then amour is with him at the talk on literature. What a character..

[@ccarmencavallaro46]

Great Movie.Happy memories. Thank you.

[@rwolfson1935]

Excellent from beginning to end. Great quality. Thank you!!

[@trilbywilby7826]

"Not by ignoring evil does one overcome it, but by going to meet it" ... "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

[@None-zc5vg]

"Good men" never DO do anything.

[@WJack97224]

Yeah, Edmund Burke as I recall.

[@danielbenedict8818]

Barbara Mulvaney TROLL!!!

[@felicitybraxx9394]

Trilby Wilby how true.👌🏼

[@elrjames7799]

@Trilby Wilby. Such physical and / or moral courage is very rare and not necessarily successful.

[@howardking3601]

Thanks! I enjoyed it. Anna was so demure and sweet -- and that angelic face! Unforgettable. And I am a fan of Trevor Howard. Not hefty or handsome, but masculine.

[@cgpyper7536]

Fantastic intrigue in a far-away seedy north African setting. Thank you RCM.

[@pauljoseph8691]

Storm at night and trench coats. Perfect start to film noir. Trevor stumbles into something, as if one should understand another’s values.

[@joelonzello4189]

Try to comprehend the "values" jumping our open borders today 6/24

[@JamesLeaveyConnections]

Very good film. Gripping, well acted. Well worth watching.

[@dillardjenkins5118]

"Excellent thriller with a lot of history of Tunisia. "Not by ignoring evil does one over come it, but by going out to meet."

[@nohumbug8636]

Excellent, heaps of gratitude for the film.

[@Franklin-pc3xd]

I do say, those whacky Ottomanders really never fail to take the cake, and everything else in one's pocket as well!! Full of devious intrigue they are.

[@warrenwilson4818]

Terrific movie. I'm not sure I would have liked it without the main actors, some of my real favorites. June 21, 2023. St. joseph, MO, USA

[@peterhays7914]

Ronald Neame must be one of the most underrated directors ever , along side Bryan Forbes .

[@cattymajiv]

Not at all. Do you even know what underrated means? Google it!

[@maryannepatriciaclark7085]

Excellent Movie, of course, British Movies are always great scripts, great actors. 2nd time watched.

[@stevengrotte2987]

A RANK film......GREAT. Thank you!

[@stevesloan7132]

This is a very nice film. Beautifully photographed and with great acting!

[@elmagodelmaryahoo]

Many times viewing this sinuous little "foreign" thriller over the years, and last night yet again, was a thoroughly enjoyable hour and 1/2....!!!👌 My only regret is that amongst all of the YT content providers, this marvelous film still lacks a "clean", contrast-adjusted film copy, even at 1080p.☹ *_Nonetheless...._* Thank You Retrospective.....😎

[@gingerli5820]

The suspense of this movie is superb, where, in North Africa, anything is possible.

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Entertaining. I, too, was reminded of Hoagy Carmichael.

[@christopherderei8973]

Fantastic. I highly recommend this movie.

[@ror312gallery19]

" Not by ignoring evil does one defeat it, but by going out to meet it. "

[@MikeGreenwood51]

40% Proof by volume is one evil you should not meet too often. Mr. T. Howard met a few too many and it contributed to his death.

[@markr.devereux3385]

Love british cimema of this era. How can you not ???

[@sharegreats2157]

Super story, unsusual and full of suspense. Thanks.

[@playingwithsticks6819]

Nice movie - good story fine acting perfect for 2am

[@Mark_S.8823]

A real Quality film. Great movies grasp you quickly, and keep you there till the end.

[@rogermaes6001]

Not bad at all, thanks ! I loved the atmosphere, the old Peugeot 202, the score by William Alwyn, Trevor Howard, of course, but also Jacques Sernas, who was so handsome : the looks between him (Max) and Howard (Redfern) speak for themselves, it's quite unusual at this time...

[@myotheraccountonothe]

Simply excellent film, good acting, good plot . Extremely enjoyable thank you for sharing ❤️

[@greekveteran2715]

Another hidden gem! Really good movie with a lot of suspense!!

[@mjc11a]

Cracking good film! Great way to spend a rainy night in Thailand. Thanks very much for posting and be safe 🙏

[@sidseda923]

Excellent story, and excellent directing

[@user-rj5kx8wr6y]

Never been disappointed ... until now! Great movie spoiled by these greedy buggers putting in an ad every five minutes or so. Would bother with them until they lift their game!

[@mikemidulster]

Wilfred-Hyde White is made to look like the character played by Hogie Carmichael in a couple of Humphrey Bogart films.

[@spamskanal]

Does not suit him at all

[@fredneecher1746]

@Barbara Mulvaney To Have and Have Not was the Bogart film this was inspired by.

[@cattymajiv]

@@fredneecher1746 I'm Barb Mulvaney, on a newer account. My previous account was deleted by KZbin, as punishment for being a Leftie. I came to watch this movie again. I didn't see your reply to that account, so although this is much later than it should be, thank you for your reply. I'm very sure I've seen Hoagy Carmichael play a similar role in at LEAST 2 other movies. I appreciate knowing the name of that one. The piano player was a commonly used character in many movies of that era, almost as common as the struggling painter. Thanks again, and have a great day! 😉 ✌🏼

[@josephinewhite6224]

Excellent movie. Thanks for showing. I'd love to see more if this caliber.

[@aliciarobertson4979]

A brilliant film! Thank you for uploading this.

[@JamesLeaveyConnections]

Good dramatic film with excellent cast and locations.

[@elijaprice]

Typical bird, never mucks in when it comes to a scrap, what's she doing just standing there like a stale croissant while the hero and the villain duke it out, why didn't she just bash him over the head with her stiletto? Thanks for uploading this, great movie, I'm loving these old Trevor Howard movies on in the background while I'm working. Trevor Howard is a guy I only knew because my mum loved 'Brief Encounter' (which was made a long time before she was even born), but he seems to just do great movies from this era, and he's got this sort of 'granite faced brute but also a gentleman' quality about him - and Herbert Lom too, who looks just like Christopher Hitchens, great villain.

[@davidmansfield9167]

SPOILERS. It's not difficult to see the influences of several film classics in this neatly executed and well performed British thriller, but it may be the fact it reminds us of them that it doesn't quite resonate in the way it needs to be considered a classic in its own right. The most obvious comparison is with Casablanca - a man torn between impossible choices, influenced by love more than morality. But whereas Rick plays a game of cat and mouse with the film's protagonists and the audience, not revealing his decision until the final moment, Trevor Howards character decides quickly and with the ease of a coin toss. The tragic consequences are meant to make his choice dramatic but only ring hollow as the impact isn't felt as strongly by the one character it should have affected the most, and by Trevor Howard not one jot. It's also hard not to think about The Third Man, (released one year earlier) not least because two of the cast appear in both films. Trevor Howard takes the role of Holly Martin, the stranger in a strange land, smitten with love and faced with duplicitous locals. But whilst there's a mystery to unravel in The Third Man, with a painful and beautifully simple yet cinematic reveal of the truth, in the Golden Salamander we know immediately who's doing what and why, and we know the likely outcome. There's no emotional conflict and the ending is delivered packed up neatly in crates like the films MacGuffin. But don't get excited, The Golden Salamander is no Maltese Falcon. There are elements of John Hustons film of Dashiell Hammett's novel - the inciting object, the duplicity, an almost incidental death, and the pacing - but The Golden Salamander lacks the snappy dialogue, shifting allegiances and a hero as devious as the villain. In the Golden Salamander people make statements, things happen, and people watch, yet it is not unsatisfying. Trevor Howard is engaging even as he potters through the film's events. Anouk Aimee is quick to fall in love and quick to forgive, but we're quick to forgive her convincing naivety, and Herbert Lom is quietly menacing. Jacques Sernas as the ill-fated brother is the most underwritten character, which is a shame as he's perfect casting, his absence noticeable. Location filming was rare at this time, and air travel just beginning to take war weary Brits to exotic lands, so audiences in the 50's must have been enthralled by this preview of Tunisia. Not a bad way to spend a wet Sunday afternoon, but unlike The Third Man, The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca I'm not likely to watch it another twenty times.

[@mrs.cracker4622]

Many thanks! That was a very well done film.

[@jcjensenllc]

I love her voice.

[@cattymajiv]

Yes. Her voice is very easily recognizable. She had a lot of small speaking parts in British films of this era, for example as an unnamed French girl on a train who interacts with a main character for a while, in Sleeping Car To Trieste. She was often the French girl in a store, or in a park.

[@shelleymcafee8197]

Very enjoyable, Thank-You!

[@johnnya867]

Terrific film. And a great print too.

[@raphaelandrews3617]

Hyde-White" You look like a man who could do with a brandy " they do not write them like this any more and what a shame.Thanks for posting this to You Tube.

[@arlynnoel]

Really, "Rafe"? That line is over-used almost as much as "they don't make them like that anymore".

[@QED_]

@Arlyn Lichthardt: "Really, Rafe (?)" That line is over-used MORE than "they don't make them like that any more". Asshole . . .

[@jodiechristian7540]

I make an effort to write into my novels, the same passionate verbiage fit for true Thespians of the screen. The point being, the prose was from a book (novel) first.

[@arlynnoel]

@@jodiechristian7540 "Prose" is singular. I hope you have a good editor.

[@jodiechristian7540]

@@arlynnoel Thank you for catching that. It should have read "...prose [was] from a book (novel) first."

[@quentinlickliter4697]

Trevor Howard in a romantic lead is a bit surprising. This plot loses credibility when Anna makes too quick a switch from Max. Other than that wonderful, great direction with really skilled camera work . So much made out of so little. A league way above much of the present day attempts. 8/10

[@danielbenedict8818]

quentin lickliter, Early on in the film, I also thought Anna and Max were possibly romantic partners, but without any real proof, I also considered the possibility that they were brother and sister. When Max disappeared, and David became romantic with Anna, it became obvious that Max and Anna were siblings.

[@alban1959]

He famously played another romantic lead in ‘Brief Encounter’

[@cattymajiv]

Max states very early on in the bar that she is his sister, and they discuss it in detail starting at 28:24, where they talk about their family, while out fishing in the boat.

[@trishazechel8402]

Great movie and thanks Retro.

[@Sheerkat7]

So Inspector Dreyfus was a young thug before he joined the Surete' and was tormented by Clouseau. Another good movie. I love the oldies. They relied on solid plots and great acting, not special effects and PC preaching.

[@zeffiraananas3999]

Amouk looks about 15 in this... making it difficult to suspend disbelief when it comes to the romance. Other than that, fun adventure! Trevor Howard and the character actors are fabulous

[@alanaronald244]

Howard was in fine fettle, here, and A.A. seemed to like him very much right off the bat. IMO, she looked a full 18 years of age. Some of us have easily been attracted to older men, so....May/December romances are well known phenomena.

[@richardscanlan3419]

I see a young Jaques Sernas in this.I remember him as Paris in 'Helen of Troy:". He was superb in that.

[@Richard19551]

H that was lovely! Thank you so much! Gripping, romantic, exotic, wonderful! I appreciate your posting it VERY much! :))

[@kennethbooker4955]

Another great film good cast

[@rubiconklbrutorowman7577]

Yes class ending well done the writer!

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

Ronald Neame , one of the best 👍👍,👏👏🇬🇧

[@A0A4ful]

Well paced. And the nerdy archeologist packs a punch when he needed it! Surely, he must've crossed paths with one Dr Indiana Jones, and learnt a few tricks over a few drinks...

[@tommoncrieff1154]

Anouk Aimee I have loved since the 1960s. She appeared in her most recent film in 2019, 70 years after she shot this one!

[@KimKim-pp5fn]

where did you see anouk aimee???????????????????????? definitely not in this movie

[@myrawinton]

A must see-brilliant acting- Most enjoyable - very engaging