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The Diamond Hunters: With Alyssa Milano, Sean Patrick Flanery, Michael Easton, Jolene Blalock. Johnny, a successful diamond hunter, gets sucked back into a family that had been his own, before the patriarch, Jacob Van der Byl, abandoned him 20 years ago.
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- Drama
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- 2001
Overview. Johnny, Benedict and Tracy grew up on the coast of South Africa, where their father, Jacob van der Byl, owns a diamond mine. While Johnny and Tracy are very close, Benedict and Johnny—who is not Jacob's biological son—are engaged in a continual rivalry.
Jan 1, 2001 · The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival.
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The Diamond Hunters is a 1971 novel by Wilbur Smith. Adaptation. Smith tried to get it made into a film for a number of years. It was adapted into the 1975 film The Kingfisher Caper and a 2001 television mini series. References
- Wilbur Smith
- 1971
Directing. Johnny, Benedict and Tracy grew up on the coast of South Africa, where their father, Jacob van der Byl, owns a diamond mine. While Johnny and Tracy are very close, Benedict and Johnny—who is not Jacob's biological son—are engaged in a continual rivalry.
A checkered past full of deception and anger threatens to bring both a family and a diamond empire crashing to the ground in this absorbing mini-series starring Roy Scheider, Alyssa Milano, and Sean Patrick Flanery.
Diamond Hunters - The Complete Mini-Series. Set against the backdrop of South Africa's diamond mines, this sprawling drama chronicles the fortunes of a family unable to forgive and forget. Diamond hunter Johnny is pulled back into his family after his father abandoned him years ago.
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