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Directed by | Jean-Marie Pallardy |
Screenplay by | Edward John Francis |
Story by | Jean-Marie Pallardy |
Produced by | Jean-Marie Pallardy Allen G. Rainer |
Starring | Robert Ginty Fred Williamson Belinda Mayne Jess Hahn Mirella Banti Diana Goodman Gordon Mitchell |
Cinematography | Roger Fellous |
Edited by | Bruno Zincone |
Music by | Jon Lord |
Distributed by | Trans World Entertainment |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Countries | France Turkey United States |
White Fire (also known as Vivre Pour Survivre and Le Diamant) is a 1984 French-American-Italian-Turkish thriller film by Jean-Marie Pallardy. It stars Belinda Mayne, Robert Ginty, Fred Williamson, Gordon Mitchell and Jess Hahn.[1][2][3][4] The title song of the film is White Fire, sung by rock group Limelight.
Plot
A brother (Ginty) and sister (Mayne), employees at a diamond mineshaft company, stumble upon the discovery of a legendary diamond, the "White Fire", and a band of criminals set out to take it from them.
In popular culture
In 2015, the film was featured on an episode of Red Letter Media's Best of the Worst, together with Future War and The Jar. The hosts criticized what they saw as frequent incestuous overtones present in the film, referring to it as "poorly disguised fetish porn".[5]
References
- ^ "White Fire (Jean-Marie Pallardy, 1984)". 9 July 2012.
- ^ Ghoulbasement.com
- ^ "Rarecultcinema.com".
- ^ "Cultmoviecompendium.co.uk".
- ^ "Best of the Worst: Future War, The Jar, and White Fire". Red Letter Media. 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
External links
- White Fire at IMDb
- White Fire at Rotten Tomatoes
- White Fire at AllMovie
- White Fire at the TCM Movie Database
- Nanarland.com, French-language reviews of the film with images, sound files, video files and music
- Video Junkie review