Green Fire

Green Fire (1954)

Lovely GRACE KELLY in a new kind of man-danger!

In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.

Date of release
1954-12-29
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Romance
Director
Andrew Marton

Casting

Interesting facts

Green Fire is a 1954 American CinemaScope and Eastmancolor adventure drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Andrew Marton and produced by Armand Deutsch, with original music by Miklós Rózsa. The picture stars Grace Kelly, Stewart Granger, Paul Douglas and John Ericson.

Production

The author of the memoir Green Fire, on which the film was based, was Major Peter William Rainier 1890–1945, a South African whose great-great-granduncle was the person that Mount Rainier, Washington was named after (by the explorer George Vancouver).

Rainier was a mining engineer who spent eleven years working in the Andes. The book came out in 1942. The New York Times praised its "adventure and sense of high spirit".

Rainier died in a fire at Red Lake in Canada in 1945 while inspecting mining properties.

Film rights were bought by MGM. In January 1953 MGM reported that producer Armand Deutsch and writer Everett Freeman were travelling to Colombia to research Green Fire. The film was going to be made as a vehicle for Clark Gable, in the vein of Mogambo which had been a big success for the actor.

In July MGM said Gable's co star would be Grace Kelly, on the basis of her successful appearance in Mogambo. By October however the female lead was Eleanor Parker, with Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts having replaced Freeman as writer.

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