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King Solomon's Mines

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Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger in King Solomon's Mines (1950)
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Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King ... Read allAdventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
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    • Compton Bennett
    • Andrew Marton
    • Helen Deutsch(screenplay)
    • H. Rider Haggard(novel)
  • Stars
    • Deborah Kerr
    • Stewart Granger
    • Richard Carlson
    • Compton Bennett
    • Andrew Marton
    • Helen Deutsch(screenplay)
    • H. Rider Haggard(novel)
  • Stars
    • Deborah Kerr
    • Stewart Granger
    • Richard Carlson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 89User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars

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    Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, and Kimursi in King Solomon's Mines (1950)
    Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger in King Solomon's Mines (1950)
    Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson in King Solomon's Mines (1950)
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    King Solomon's Mines (1950)
    King Solomon's Mines (1950)
    Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson in King Solomon's Mines (1950)
    Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson in King Solomon's Mines (1950)
    Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger in King Solomon's Mines (1950)
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    Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr
    • Elizabeth Curtis
    Stewart Granger
    Stewart Granger
    • Allan Quatermain
    Richard Carlson
    Richard Carlson
    • John Goode
    Hugo Haas
    Hugo Haas
    • Van Brun aka Smith
    Lowell Gilmore
    Lowell Gilmore
    • Eric Masters
    Kimursi
    • Khiva
    • (as Kimursi of the Kipsigi Tribe)
    Siriaque
    • Umbopa
    • (as Siriaque of the Watussi Tribe)
    Sekaryongo
    • Chief Gagool
    • (as Sekaryongo of the Watussi Tribe)
    Baziga
    • King Twala
    • (as Baziga of the Watussi Tribe)
    Munto Anampio
    • Chief Bilu
    • (uncredited)
    John Banner
    John Banner
    • Austin - Safari Client
    • (uncredited)
    Benempinga
    • Black Circle
    • (uncredited)
    Gutare
    • Kafa - Umbopa's Old Uncle
    • (uncredited)
    Ivargwema
    • Blue Star
    • (uncredited)
    Henry Rowland
    Henry Rowland
    • Traum - Safari Client
    • (uncredited)
      • Compton Bennett
      • Andrew Marton
      • Helen Deutsch(screenplay)
      • H. Rider Haggard(novel)
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    • Trivia
      While filming on location in Carlsbad National Park's New Cave, Deborah Kerr took her lipstick and wrote the initials "DK" on a cave formation near the Klansman formation that was used as a background. An electrician also took a burned out lamp and tossed it in a hole under that formation. Since the cave is still 'active', meaning the formations are still slowly being encased in more minerals, the initials and the lamp are now solidly encased in a layer limestone that is thin enough to see through but thick enough to prevent removal. The Carlsbad Park Rangers refer to the "DK" as the Deborah Kerr formation. Both are still visible to this day.
    • Goofs
      Quartermain's pet monkey, Lulu, is a capuchin monkey. Capuchin monkeys are New World monkeys native to Central and South America and not found in Africa where the film is set.
    • Quotes

      Allan Quatermain: Mrs. Curtis, the average life of a man in my profession is approximately eight years. Now, I've been at it for fifteen, so you see, I've been living on borrowed time. My wife died here six years ago. Sooner or later, an animal, or an unfriendly native, or a tropical disease will get me. I have a son in England. There'll be very little money for him if anything should happen to me in the ORDINARY course of events, but the money you're offering would provide very nicely for the boy until he's old enough to take care of himself.

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      Edited into Watusi (1959)

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    8/10
    Classic Adventure; Unpretentious, Epic in Feel, Plus a Mature Romance
    When this production was mounted for Stewart Granger, with Deborah Kerr and Richard Carlson as his co-stars, no one could have imagined how imitated, influential and important the film would become. It has an epic quality about it that is earned by African on-site locales, fine cinematography and direction of the film, and the discovery-aspect of the narrative as the participants learn along about a fascinating continent and its people with the viewers. H. Rider Haggard's venerable novel find to b a curious mixture of Victorian angst, adventure, romance, mystery evoked by an expedition storyline. The fine acting by Stewart Granger as Alan Quartermain the white hunter, Deborah Kerr as a woman seeking her missing husband, Richard Carlson as her brother, and Hugo Haas as a back-sliding villain works exceptionally to increase the believability of the film. The simplest incident on this dangerous expedition--sitting down in the wrong place, turning over a leaf, wearing the wrong weight or textile of garment, cutting one's hair, hearing a sound, anything--can trigger a learning or a dangerous experience... This was a lavish MGM production, with participation by legendary artists and technicians such as Cedric Gibbons as art director, Edwin B. Willis as set decorator, Robert Surtees as cinematographer, Douglas Shearer in charge of sound and many others. But the real star of the film apart from the actors is Andrew Marton and Compton Bennett's realization of Helen Deutsch's interesting modernization of the original novel. Wjite hunter Alan Quartermain does not really care to live any longer; he has just seen one of his best "boys" die in a hunting accident, having been hired to please a bloodthirsty imperial's whim to kill wildlife; and Deborah Kerr comes along just then in need of a guide, trying to convince herself that she still cares about the cold husband who disappeared in search of a fabled treasure, the gold mines of King Solomon of Israel.. Obviously the two are ready to fall in love during the dangerous search for her lost mate, one that takes them into unknown country, among dangerous tribes, and into adventures that include helping a deposed seven-foot-tall monarch regain his throne by a rite of combat, incidentally saving their lives in the process. The most exciting sequence in the film is a grass fire that causes animals to stampede toward the expedition, who must taken shelter crouched low behind a makeshift low barrier; it has been imitated, never duplicated, and was later used in several other films. The film is occasionally leisurely, never dull; its makers play with time very intelligently. For once, the viewer gets the sense in a film of an arduous trek, of time passing, time for changes to happen and motivations for the same. The actors are grand, especially the mature intelligent leads; all-in-all, this simple storyline in the right hands was turned into what is all-but-universally acknowledge to be a classic adventure-romance.
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    • silverscreen888
    • Jun 30, 2005

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      • November 24, 1950 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Carlsbad Caverns National Park - 727 Carlsbad Caverns Highway, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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