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

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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