Plunder of the Sun

Plunder of the Sun
Plunder of the Sun
	Diana Lynn and Glenn Ford in the film
Directed by	John Farrow
Written by	David F. Dodge (novel); Jonathan Latimer
Produced by	Robert Fellows; John Wayne (uncredited)
Starring	Glenn Ford; Diana Lynn; Patricia Medina; Francis L. Sullivan
Edited by	Harry Marker
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	August 26, 1953;
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1 million (US)

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First edition (publ. Random House)

Plunder of the Sun is a 1949 novel by David F. Dodge about a hunt for ancient Peruvian treasure. It was made into a 1953 Film Noir movie of the same name starring Glenn Ford with the location changed to Mexico.

Plot

The adventurer Al Colby is persuaded by Anna Luz and her antiquities collector husband, Thomas Berrien, to help them smuggle a parcel back into Mexico where its true value can be ascertained.

Warned that a man named Jefferson traveling on the same freighter might try to steal it, Colby ultimately forms a partnership with Jefferson following the fatal heart attack of Berrien aboard ship. Jefferson betrays and shoots him, but Colby saves himself and the rare documents in time. They will be returned to a museum while he and Anna can enjoy a $25,000 reward.

Hard Case Crime

Al Colby should never have agreed to smuggle the package from Chile to Peru. Now one man’s dead, two beautiful women have betrayed him, and a couple of gunmen are hot on his trail. All because of an ancient Quechua manuscript pointing to the hiding place of a priceless hoard of gold, lost for centuries. Now the race is on — by train, by plane, by motorboat and by mule — first to find the treasure and then to escape with it alive... [1]

[1]http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=Plunder%20of%20the%20Sun