Diamond Frontier (1940)
Genre : Adventure
Runtime : 1H 13M
Director : Harold D. Schuster
Writer : Edmund L. Hartmann, Stanley Rubin
Synopsis
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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