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

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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