King Solomon's Mines (1985)
- Directed by
- J. Lee Thompson
- Genre
- fantasy film, comedy film, action film, treasure hunt film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 474 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 fortune hunter named Allan Quatermain teams up with a woman to find her missing father in Africa. They search for a legendary treasure while facing various dangers and rival treasure seekers.
lightheartedadventurouscomedicfast-pacedparodiccampyplayfulexciting
What happens
King Solomon's Mines is a 1985 action adventure film, adapting the 1885 novel by H. Rider Haggard. It stars Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies. It was produced by Cannon Films. It was adapted by Gene Quintano and James R. Silke and directed by J. Lee Thompson. This version of the story was a light, comedic take, deliberately referring to, and parodying, the Indiana Jones film series. It was filmed outside Harare in Zimbabwe. King Solomon's Mines was followed by a sequel (filmed back-to-back), Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986). It was originally planned to be the first in a trilogy, and there were two attempts to film a third movie: first, a film that would have been based on She and Allan, another Haggard novel, and then a film which would have been titled Allan Quatermain and the Jewel of the East, to be directed by producer Menahem Golan. Neither attempt was successful, in part due to the financial failure of Lost City of Gold. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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