
About the film

based on short story
The Gold Bug
Release Date: February 02, 1980
Year | : | 1980 |
Slogan | : | «» |
Genres | : | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, TV Movie |
Production Companies | : | Highgate Pictures, learning corporation of america |
Director | : | Robert Fuest |
Producers | : | Isabel Halliburton, Walter Rearick, Nancy Wood-Tuber |
Writers | : | Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Pomerantz |
RunTime | : | 45 mins. |
Shortly after the Civil War, while exploring the long deserted and reputedly haunted Sullivan's Island off Charleston S.C., a boy encounters two obsessed eccentrics living there. These men chase him away and warn him never to return or to tell anyone about them. Soon, however, they locate him and summon him back, because he has unknowingly given them a clue vital to their quest and they need his help to unravel the rest of the mystery. If he can do so, they will find buried pirate treasure and all become rich. But in joining the search, he falls under the same obsession and curse -- an ominous fate suggested by the unearthly electronic music which contributes to the film's atmosphere.
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