With its tale of fool's gold and mysterious death, the Bre-X story is on its way to becoming a Hollywood remake of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The book contracts have been signed, the movie rights sold. But the story is only beginning for the hundreds of investors suing to recover their lost fortunes. Investors claim they were duped by the Canadian company and, in one case, the brokerage and analyst that promoted its stock to stratospheric levels.
June 01, 1997