King Solomon's Mines

Directors: Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton

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• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: WarnerBrothers
• Directors: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

The rod by which other African/Romance stories are measured

As with many of the great ones, this is a remake of the 1937 movie and was remade again in 1985. Just as we all know that Moses looks like Charleston Heston, we also know that Allan Quatermain looks like Stewart Granger. The movie also has many other greats, such as Richard Carlson of “Creature from the Black Lagoon” fame. Deborah Kerr as Elizabeth Curtis is nowhere to be found in the H. Rider Haggard book, so she must have been inserted by Helen Deutsch. The basic story is an adaptation from H. Rider Haggard, in which Elizabeth Curtis comes to Africa in search of her lost husband and eventually uses a considerable sum of money to recruit Allan Quatermain against his better judgment to lead the search. Naturally, the two people, even though chaperoned, have to resist nature taking its course. Eventually, picking up a stranger (Umbopa) going their way, they run into danger from animals, natives, unscrupulous people, and maybe a cave that looks identical to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The title gives away the reason that the husband (Curtis) was in Africa, to begin with. Will Curtis be found, and what effect will it have on Allan and Elizabeth?