Producer/director S. Sylvan Simon, a man usually associated with comedies and musicals, turned out a rip-roaring western melodrama when he aimed his sights at Lust for Gold. Most of the film is told in flashback, relating the exploits of Jacob Walz (Glenn Ford), the greedy, homicidal owner of the legendary Lost Dutchman Mine. After conniving and killing his way to success, Walz is destroyed when he falls in love with equally mercenary Julia Thomas (Ida Lupino at her nasty best). The film returns to the Present, as a descendant of Walz tries to locate the mine--and endangers his own life in the process. Most of the action highlights in Lust for Gold would turn up as stock footage in future Columbia productions, including an episode of TV's Captain Midnight. Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Category Adventure Drama
- Theme: Ladder to the Top
- Studio: Columbia TriStar
- Run Time: 01 hr 30 min
- Language: English
- Subtitle Language: English, Japanese
- Release Date: April 5, 2005
- Lead Actor: Glenn Ford, Gig Young, William Prince, Edgar Buchanan, Ida Lupino
- Supporting Actor: Will Wright, Eddy Waller, Jay Silverheels, Paul Ford, Will Geer, William Tannen, Fred Sears, Percy Helton, Kermit Maynard, George Cheseboro, Virginia Mullen, Antonio Moreno, Arthur Hunnicutt, Myrna Dell, Tom Tyler, Elspeth Dudgeon, Paul E. Burns, Hayden Rorke, Arthur Space
- Director: S. Sylvan Simon
