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Black Water Gold

1970 television film directed by Alan Landsburg

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ17507158 ↗
Source-derived summary

Black Water Gold is a 1970 American made-for-television adventure drama film starring Keir Dullea, Bradford Dillman, France Nuyen, Aron Kincaid, and Ricardo Montalbán. It was aired on January 6, 1970 in the ABC Movie of the Week space.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Black Water Gold” as 1970 television film directed by Alan Landsburg. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Black, Water and Gold.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Black, Water and Gold providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Black Water Gold”, the useful work is to connect “1970 television film directed by Alan Landsburg” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17507158. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “Black Water Gold” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.