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Directed by | Henry Levin |
Written by | Rod Taylor Walter Brough |
Produced by | Sam Manners |
Starring | Rod Taylor Stuart Whitman |
Cinematography | Joe Jackman Richard Kelley |
Edited by | Keith Stafford |
Music by | Byron Lee |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Countries | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Treasure Seekers (also known as Forty Million Bucks, On a Dead Man's Chest, Treasure of Death, 40 Million Bucks on a Dead Man's Chest, [1] Contraband and Jamaican Gold [2] ) is a 1979 British-American action film directed by Henry Levin and starring Rod Taylor, Stuart Whitman and Elke Sommer. [1] [3] It was written by Taylor and Walter Brough.
Two former football players re-unite to search for the lost treasures of the seventeenth century pirate Henry Morgan.
Filming took place on location in Jamaica in 1976, but he film only achieved a limited release a number of years later.[ citation needed ] There were a number of problems during the shoot and post production. [4]
Derek Winnert wrote: "Rod Taylor and Stuart Whitman are both pretty dull, while Jeremy Kemp and Keenan Wynn (as Meat Cleaver Stewart) overact but liven things up a bit, and it is good to have Elke Sommer aboard as the alluring Ursula. However, director Levin does not manage much energy or excitement, though there is an entertaining action climax." [2]