Diamond Frontier
Cast & Crew
Harold Schuster
Victor Mclaglen
John Loder
Anne Nagel
Cecil Kellaway
Philip Dorn
Film Details
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Synopsis
Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Charles Clayton returns home to the small mining town of Ammersand in South Africa to practice medicine and marry his sweetheart, Jeanne Krueger. Charles arrives in the midst of a diamond strike that has transformed the town into a boom town under the control of a trio of cut-throats led by Terrence Regan. Charles' attempts to institute law and order by organizing the diggers is met with opposition by Regan and his gang, who eliminate the doctor by railroading him into a ten-year prison term for dealing in stolen diamonds. Time passes, and with the help of Baron Gilbert La Roque, a fellow inmate, Charles breaks out of the camp. In the jungle surrounding the prison, his life is imperiled by crocodiles and poisonous snakes until he is rescued by a trader named Noah. As Charles lies delirious in Noah's tent, the Ammersand paper reports an account of his death. Upon his recovery, Charles and Noah set out in search of the baron's hidden diamonds. After harrowing encounters with cannibals and man-eating tigers, the pair find the diamonds and sell them in Cape Town. In order to bring Regan and his cut throats to justice, Charles decides to return to Ammersand in disguise as Sir Edmund Dantes, an aristocratic diamond buyer. In Ammersand, Noah and Charles discover that Regan is selling water, and they blow up the dam to provide free water to the parched citizens. When Charles insists upon becoming Regan's partner, Regan begins to suspect his true identity. Regan organizes a posse to kill Charles and burn down the diggers shacks, but in the chaos, is mortally wounded. As Regan lies dying, Charles forces a confession from him, and thus exonerated, Charles marries Jeanne and brings law and order to Ammersand.
Director
Harold Schuster
Cast
Victor Mclaglen
John Loder
Anne Nagel
Cecil Kellaway
Philip Dorn
Francis Ford
Hugh Sothern
Ferris Taylor
J. Anthony Hughes
Evelyn Selbie
Lionel Belmore
John Ellis
Edward Stanley
Dorothy Vaughan
Bill Ruhl
Skelton Knaggs
Dewey Robinson
Siegfried Arno
Sonny Bupp
Ralph Dunn
Harry Strang
John Harmon
Larry Kent
Jack Carr
Alan Bridge
Ed Cobb
Shirley Mills
Ralph Brooks
Charles Sherlock
Larry Steers
Buddy Bange
Conrad Binyon
Marie Farnum
Crew
Bernard B. Brown
Fred Frank
R. A. Gausman
Marshall Grant
Edmund L. Hartmann
W. Donn Hayes
William Hedgecock
Milton Krasner
Harold H. Macarthur
Jack Otterson
Stanley Rubin
H. J. Salter
Vera West
Film Details
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Notes
The working title of this picture was A Modern Monte Cristo. The film was also reviewed under the title of Diamond Frontiers. Philip Dorn's character is listed as January Stafford in the film's credits, yet in the film itself his character is called DeWinter, the name cited in the copyright records.
