The Adventurers (1951 film)

The Adventurers
Original British 1-sheet poster
Directed by	David MacDonald
Produced by	Aubrey Baring Maxwell Setton
Written by	Robert Westerby
Starring	Dennis Price Jack Hawkins Siobhan McKenna
Music by	Cedric Thorpe Davie
Cinematography	Oswald Morris
Edited by	Vladimir Sagovsky
Production company	Mayflower Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	General Film Distributors
Release date	7 March 1951 (London)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Adventurers is a 1951 British adventure film directed by David MacDonald and starring Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond and Dennis Price. In the wake of the Boer War several men journey into the South African veldt in search of diamonds. It was made at Pinewood Studios, with some location filming in South Africa.

As the Boer War finalizes a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper.

The film was originally known as The South Africa Story. It had its world premiere aboard the Queen Mary liner. The film was cut by 12 minutes for its U.S. release, and was twice retitled, as Fortune in Diamonds and The Great Adventure.

Allmovie noted "an African variation of Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Adventurers is buoyed by an unusually vicious performance by Jack Hawkins" ; while the Radio Times wrote, "this could have been quite stirring if it hadn't been morbidly under-directed at a snail's pace by David MacDonald" ; and TV Guide found that, despite its borrowings from Sierra Madre and from von Stroheim's Greed, "it is nevertheless an often-gripping film."