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...Homestake mine was discovered in 1876 by a prospector named Moses Manuel. The following year he sold the claim for $70,000 to a San Francisco syndicate headed by George Hearst, father of Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who was later to use the family's Homestake fortune in building his newspaper empire. Today it is run by Chairman Donald McLaughlin, 74, former head of Harvard's geology department, and by John K. Gustafson, 59, president, chief executive officer-and once one of McLaughlin's students...
Flaherty was born in 1884 with an iron spoon in his mouth. Son of a Minnesota mining engineer, he went to work as a prospector at 16. At 26 he made his first penetration of the far north-outwardly to search for ore in the Hudson Bay country, inwardly to search for an arctic ascesis. He found it among the Eskimos. During the next nine years they led him on a hundred expeditions and taught him to live as men live when they have nothing in life but life. "In the long arctic night," a friend later said...
...white knight, the matchmaker, and the childlike philosopher, is Countess Aurelie, Ghailot's elderly madwoman. While sitting at a Parisian cafe, Aurelie overhears a company president, a baron, and a prospector discussing plans to tap the seas of oil that, they are sure, lie under Paris's streets. The Countess is at first natively ignorant of the uses of oil, but when she learns of the industrialists' evil lust for power, and is told how oil can give them that power, she crushes them, madly. She tries them, in absentia, condemns them, and executes them by luring all the advocates...
Unfortunately, before the prospector relates his own near-farcical version of what happened, The Outrage has already set the audience snickering. Even Howe's limpid, meticulous photography cannot redeem the dialogue, which the actors often appear to be addressing to Destiny rather than to one another, perhaps out of kindness. Actress Bloom intones: "He couldn't touch all we've been to each other." Newman's bandit is a growling comic-strip Mexican who leers: "You cooked dee pot of tamales, I juz' took off dee lid." And in the film's bumbling climax...
...case came to trial. Whether he was killed in a fair fight, murdered by his dishonored wife, or done in by his own hand, depends on which of the protagonists' testimonies can be believed. One of the trio gathered at the depot is a thieving old prospector (Howard Da Silva), who finally admits that he was an eyewitness to the crime but claims that none of the stories told at the trial were wholly true...