''White Fire'' (also known as ''Vivre Pour Survivre'' and ''Le Diamant'') is a 1984 French- American-

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. It stars

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, Gordon Mitchell and Jess Hahn. The title song of the film is ''White Fire'', sung by rock group Limelight.

Plot

Bo (Ginty) and Ingrid (Mayne), respectively brother and sister, employees at a diamond mineshaft company, stumble upon the discovery of a legendary diamond, the "White Fire", and a band of criminals set out to take it from them.

In popular culture

In 2015, the film was featured on an episode of

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's ''Best of the Worst'', together with '' Future War'' and '' The Jar''. The panelists criticized the film’s heavy and persistent incestuous overtones, referring to it as “…a 91-minute treatise on incest couched in a heist movie.” The segment of the episode focusing on ''White Fire'' includes clips from the film in which Bo (Ginty) utters lines of dialogue such as, “It’s a pity you’re my sister,” upon seeing Ingrid (Mayne) naked. Ingrid is subsequently murdered, and Bo later meets a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her (also played by Mayne) and enters into a romantic relationship with her.

References

External links

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Nanarland.com
French-language reviews of the film with images, sound files, video files and music

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