King Solomon's Mines (1950) |
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| Director(s) | Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton |
| Producer(s) | Sam Zimbalist |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Exotic Lands, Treasure |
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Deborah Kerr(as Elizabeth Curtis)
King Solomon's Mines
Released
1950
King Solomon's Mines
Released
1950
Deborah Kerr
(as Elizabeth Curtis)
Stewart Granger(as Allan Quatermain)
King Solomon's Mines
Released
1950
King Solomon's Mines
Released
1950
Stewart Granger
(as Allan Quatermain)
Richard Carlson(as John Goode)
King Solomon's Mines
Released
1950
King Solomon's Mines
Released
1950
Richard Carlson
(as John Goode)
John Banner(as Austin)
King Solomon's Mines
Released
1950
King Solomon's Mines
Released
1950
John Banner
(as Austin)
King Solomon's Mines Overview:
King Solomon's Mines (1950) was a Adventure - Romance Film directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton and produced by Sam Zimbalist.
Academy Awards 1950 --- Ceremony Number 23 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Picture | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Nominated |
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King Solomon's Mines Quotes:
Allan Quatermain:
Stupid waste, this safari. All of it! Half our supplies gone after that all-night stampede. Wasted! Waste of time, supplies, and lives.
Elizabeth Curtis: [Glares at him, too sleepy to argue]
Allan Quatermain: [Sarcastic] Well, I hope the lady enjoyed it!
Elizabeth Curtis: [Ignores him]
Elizabeth Curtis: [Glares at him, too sleepy to argue]
Allan Quatermain: [Sarcastic] Well, I hope the lady enjoyed it!
Elizabeth Curtis: [Ignores him]
Allan Quatermain:
The only way out of this is... suffocation.
Allan Quatermain:
Stupid waste, this safari. All of it! Half our supplies gone now, after that all-night stampede. Wasted! Waste of time, supplies, and lives.
Elizabeth Curtis: Glares at him, too sleepy to argue.
Allan Quatermain: Well, I hope the lady enjoyed it!
Elizabeth Curtis: Ignores him.
Elizabeth Curtis: Glares at him, too sleepy to argue.
Allan Quatermain: Well, I hope the lady enjoyed it!
Elizabeth Curtis: Ignores him.
Allan Quatermain:
...in the end you begin to accept it all... you watch things hunting and being hunted, reproducing, killing and dying, it's all endless and pointless, except in the end one small pattern emerges from it all, the only certainty: one is born, one lives for a time then one dies, that is all...
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The movie has no music score whatever. The only thing at all musical in the film is some African chanting and drums.
The location footage in this film, especially the various animals, was re-used as stock footage for dozens of films in the fifties and later, including Tarzan, the Ape Man, Watusi and the 1973 version of Trader Horn.
The Deborah Kerr character -- a screenwriter's invention -- does not appear in H. Rider Haggard's novel.
In 1958, MGM reissued this film on a double bill with Rogue Cop.
Errol Flynn was originally cast as Quartermain, but turned it down, as he did not desire to sleep in a tent on location in Africa. Instead he did Kim, which was filmed in India, but the accommodations for the actors were at a local resort.