King Solomon's Mines

1985
PG
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

16K

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Sharon Stone and Richard Chamberlain in King Solomon's Mines (1985)

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Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival Germ... Read allFortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

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IMDb RATING

5.2/10

16K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Richard Chamberlain

Allan Quatermain

Sharon Stone

Jesse

Herbert Lom

Colonel Bockner

John Rhys-Davies

Dogati

Ken Gampu

Umbopo

June Buthelezi

Gagoola

Sam Williams

Scragga

Shaike Ophir

Kassam
(as Shai K. Ophir)

Fidelis Cheza

Mapaki Chief
(as Fidelis Chea)

Mick Lesley

Dorfman

Vincent Van der Byl

Shack
(as Vincent Van Der Byl)

Bob Greer

Hamid

Oliver Tengende

Bushiri

Neville Thomas

German Pilot

Bishop McThuzen

Dari
(as Bishop Mcthuzen)

Isiah Murert

Rug Carrier

Rocky Green

Silent One

Calvin Johns

Silent One

Director
- J. Lee Thompson
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User reviews108

Featured review

It is a comedy

Please refrain to take this movie seriously. I repeat: please refrain to take this movie seriously. Any person who is unable to watch a movie without taking it seriously is advised to go watch something else. This one here was meant to be ridiculous. And if it was not, then it is a fine piece of unintentional comedy.

m67165
May 5, 2003
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Trivia
Producer Menahem Golan actually wanted Kathleen Turner, who was coming off the hit film Romancing the Stone (1984), to star in this film. He said, "I want that Stone woman," and Sharon Stone was hired by mistake.

Goofs
Virtually all the other characters mispronounce "Quatermain" as "Quartermain".

Quotes
Colonel Bockner: [Fritz enters quicksand] My gramophone; save my gramophone.
Fritz (German enlisted): I'm sinking. I'm sinking!
Colonel Bockner: Stop sinking. That's an order!
Dogati: I'm happy. No more Wagner.

Alternate versions
All DVD/VHS releases and TV versions in Germany were cut for violence to secure a "Not under 12" rating. In 2004 the film was re-released on DVD by MGM for the first time in its uncut form.