TREASURE UNLIMITED

Year Published: 1960s

Format: 16mm

Description: Dating to the 1960s, this teaser trailer for "Treasure Unlimited" promotes the "Treasure of His Black Majesty". Unfortunately, we've never found the rest of this episode, but it apparently dealt with a cache of gold and silver hidden on the island of Haiti. At :46, a statue of King Henri Christophe, who supposedly amassed the fortune. At 1:09, the Citadelle Laferrière, commonly known as La Citadelle, is shown. This is a large early 19th-century fortress located in Minot in Nord, Haiti.

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foreign [Music] Bill signs did you know the troops of Napoleon were once defeated by a ragged Army commanded by a former slave a former slave who is said to have hidden the 30 million dollar treasure we are about to investigate The Treasure of his black Majesty [Music] this is the story of The Treasure of his black Majesty a cache of gold and silver valued at 30 million dollars hidden somewhere within the confines of a tropical island this is the story of the man who amassed this Fortune King Henry Kristoff of Heaton one of the most fantastic men who ever lived he became in his greatest hour the first man in history to repel the mercenary troops of Napoleon then to die by his own hand of a wound inflicted by a golden bullet African slave who aspired from the degradation of servitude to a Golden Throne unequal in the Western Hemisphere and built the 10th wonder of the world the Citadel his Monument to Defiance of European powers Authority Kristoff marked his position as King by wearing a cemetery Bejeweled with diamonds emeralds and rubies and a cloak of gold brocade but at a time when unrest fomented throughout his realm King Kristoff gathered up the wealth of the crown and buried it in this Valley [Music] 30 million dollars The Treasure of his black Majesty [Music]


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