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- Green Fire is a 1954 MGM movie directed by Andrew Marton and produced by Armand Deutsch, with original music by Miklós Rózsa and starring Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger, Paul Douglas and John Ericson. As "Green Fire" opens, we find rugged mining engineer Rian Mitchell (Stewart Granger), discovering a lost emerald mine in the highlands of Colombia, which had last been operated by the Spanish conquistadors. Rian is a man consumed by the quest for wealth. However, he has to contend with local bandits and a savage leopard, which injure him and stop him from going any further with his mining plans. Taken to recuperate at the plantation home of local coffee grower Catherine Knowland (Grace Kelly) and her brother, Donald (John Ericson), Rian manages to exercise his old ability to charm the womenfolk, and a strong attraction develops between him and Catherine. At port, however, his partner, Vic Leonard (Paul Douglas), is preparing to leave Colombia. Rian, anxious to get Vic's assistance to mine the emeralds, tricks him into staying and remaining his partner. Returning to the mine, Rian at first gets Catherine's cooperation and resumes his romantic overtures. However, Rian's endless greed and drive to get the emeralds at any cost soon create troubles - not only does he come into dangerous conflict with the chief of the local bandits, who threatens Catherine at her home, but he also takes Donald into the mining operation, despite his complete lack of knowledge in the field, solely to obtain the available numbers of workers on the plantation for his mining needs. Catherine and Rian then come into direct conflict with each other as the coffee harvest time arrives. She has few workers left and finds her fields under threat of flooding from Rian's mining operations. When a tragic accident at the mine site kills Donald, even Vic abandons his old friend and sets out to help Catherine with her harvesting, all the while harboring his own passion for the beautiful young woman. It takes a final shoot-out between the bandits and Rian's men, in which Catherine and Vic do support him, for Rian to finally come to his senses and realize his mistakes. At great risk to himself, he sets in place an explosion of dynamite that not only diverts the water away from Catherine's plantation, but also buries the mine under tons of rubble, from where it can no longer be reached. Having exorcised his greed demons, Rian then reunites with a forgiving Catherine at the finale. Despite the presence of such a famous actress as Grace Kelly, "Green Fire" really is Stewart Granger's film. In a way, it provides him with a welcome change of pace from many of the stiff costume epics that he was plowing his way through in the middle '50s. Here, he is he-man and certainly conman, as well. Actually, he does good work as the emerald-hungry miner who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Granger certainly never looked better than he does in "Green Fire", and although he is certainly not the most famous of Grace Kelly's leading men, the pair have a reasonably good, although not magical, chemistry on screen. Grace Kelly, quite rightly, had great dissatisfaction with the roles that her home studio, MGM, were giving her, and she did almost all of her greatest films on loan out to such studios as Universal and Paramount. Here, she has a fairly standard and rather colorless character to play. Even though her Catherine is a woman who runs a coffee plantation largely on her own, she in many ways is your standard romantic product of the fifties, looking impossibly beautiful even in the rough conditions in Colombia. Veteran actor Paul Douglas has probably the most interesting character to play here, as Rian's old mining buddy, who is repeatedly loyal to his old friend despite his obvious failings, but who goes over to Catherine's side when he sees what greed has done to his friend. His unrequited passion for the Grace Kelly character while doomed from the start adds some poignancy to his rough-as-nails character, and he definitely comes out the more likeable of the two male leads. Of course, the memorable qualities and real beauty of "Green Fire" rest not in its fairly standard love story or the performances but in the totally magnificent location cinematography in the remote regions of Colombia where the plantation and mining scenes were shot. MGM really went all out in the cinematographic side of this story and, the cast and crew ostensibly endured many weeks of miserable weather and conditions to give the film its very realistic look. The spectacular landslide that comes at the climax of the story is well worth waiting for and involves a huge rock fall, done entirely with explosives and with none of the computer technology that would be employed to achieve the same effect nowadays. While "Green Fire" never would be judged as great cinematic art or even a major effort in the catalogs of work of both Grace Kelly and Stewart Granger, it is, nevertheless, a highly enjoyable adventure romance, set in some spectacular scenery. Blessed as it is with some excellently staged special effects near its exciting climax and a grand shoot-out that would do any western adventure story proud, it makes great viewing for both action lovers and those who like romances set in exotic places. "Green Fire", while providing Grace Kelly with one of her less colorful roles, does capture her legendary beauty to perfection, the like of which seems to be largely absent in our current top actresses. For love and adventure mixed in with human greed in the emerald mines of Colombia, "Green Fire" is sure to provide great, but not classic, entertainment from the days of the old Hollywood studio system.
- Grünes Feuer ist ein US-amerikanischer Spielfilm von Andrew Marton aus dem Jahre 1954. Als Vorlage diente der gleichnamige Roman von Peter W. Rainier.
- Fuego verde, es una película de 1954.
- Vihreä tuli on yhdysvaltalainen seikkailu- ja draamaelokuva vuodelta 1954. Sen on ohjannut Andrew Marton. Elokuvan pääosissa ovat Stewart Granger ja Grace Kelly. Elokuvan tuotti Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
- Green Fire é um filme estadunidense de 1954 do gênero aventura, dirigido por Andrew Marton. Produção da MGM realizada em CinemaScope, com música de Miklós Rózsa. Na trilha sonora, a canção "Maringá" de Joubert de Carvalho, cantada em espanhol.
- Grön eld, amerikansk film från 1954.
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- Green Fire is a 1954 MGM movie directed by Andrew Marton and produced by Armand Deutsch, with original music by Miklós Rózsa and starring Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger, Paul Douglas and John Ericson. As "Green Fire" opens, we find rugged mining engineer Rian Mitchell (Stewart Granger), discovering a lost emerald mine in the highlands of Colombia, which had last been operated by the Spanish conquistadors. Rian is a man consumed by the quest for wealth.
- Grünes Feuer ist ein US-amerikanischer Spielfilm von Andrew Marton aus dem Jahre 1954. Als Vorlage diente der gleichnamige Roman von Peter W. Rainier.
- Fuego verde, es una película de 1954.
- Vihreä tuli on yhdysvaltalainen seikkailu- ja draamaelokuva vuodelta 1954. Sen on ohjannut Andrew Marton. Elokuvan pääosissa ovat Stewart Granger ja Grace Kelly. Elokuvan tuotti Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
- Green Fire é um filme estadunidense de 1954 do gênero aventura, dirigido por Andrew Marton. Produção da MGM realizada em CinemaScope, com música de Miklós Rózsa. Na trilha sonora, a canção "Maringá" de Joubert de Carvalho, cantada em espanhol.
- Grön eld, amerikansk film från 1954.
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