King Solomon's Mines (1937)
- Directed by
- Geoffrey Barkas, Robert Stevenson
- Genre
- fantasy film, adventure film, treasure hunt film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 28 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of adventurers travels into an unexplored region of Africa to find a missing man and the legendary diamond mines he sought. They face dangers from nature and hostile tribes along the way.
adventurousold-fashionedlightheartedbreezyexoticfast-pacednostalgicstraightforward
What happens
King Solomon's Mines is a 1937 British adventure film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, John Loder and Roland Young. A film adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same name by Henry Rider Haggard, the film was produced by the Gaumont British Picture Corporation at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. Sets were designed by art director Alfred Junge. Of all the novel's adaptations, this film is considered to be the most faithful to the book. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.