The Golden Trail
| The Golden Trail | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Thomas Bacall |
| Screenplay by | Thomas Bacall |
| Story by | Thomas Bacall |
| Produced by | Steven Soderbergh |
| Starring | Gary Oldman Henry Cavill Tom Holland Lily Collins Christoph Waltz Daniel Kaluuya Lashana Lynch Jean Reno |
| Cinematography | Ellen Kuras |
| Edited by | Lee Smith |
| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | January 5, 2019 |
Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $125 million |
| Box office | $411 million |
The Golden Trail is a 2019 British heist film directed by Prince Thomas, Duke of Hanover (credited as Thomas Bacall) and produced by Steven Soderbergh. Featuring an ensemble cast of Gary Oldman, Christoph Waltz, Henry Cavill, Daniel Kaluuya, Lashana Lynch, Tom Holland, Lily Collins, and Jean Reno, the film follows a wealthy British ex-thief Michael Pearce (Oldman) who hires an unlikely group of individuals to rob the elusive German master thief Martin Ritschel (Waltz) and return his hefty stolen loot back to the authorities after decades of presumably being lost for good.
Plot
In 1975, under the dead of night, a group of six armed gunmen storm a bank in eastern France. Using a helicopter and an armament of tools and weapons that included MP5 submachine guns, smoke grenades, explosives, and a sledgehammer, the gunmen successfully secured approximately $100 million without a single shot being fired and escape into the darkness before police could effectively respond. Upon successfully evading authorities, the six men split off with their fair share of the loot and were never seen since.
In 2008, Michael Pearce, a wealthy British philanthropist and former labourer of working-class roots, was playing a game of chess with his close friend Angus before being told of a rumour that the $100 million lost in a bizarre robbery several decades ago had been found, supposedly in the possession of an elusive German man named Martin Heineken who is said to have had it stashed in an extremely well-protected bank in Bavaria. However, Pearce, a reformed thief, dismisses the rumours while admitting that in his youth, he became very passionate about the robbery, particularly its many intricacies and the amount of money the robbers ran off with.