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King Solomon's Mines (1950)

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Reviews Counted:10

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Rotten:3

Average Rating:6.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Three adventurers embark on a perilous quest in the wilds of Africa for the famed diamond mines. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: Best (Color) Cinematography,... Three adventurers embark on a perilous quest in the wilds of Africa for the famed diamond mines. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: Best (Color) Cinematography, Best Film Editing. [More]

Starring: Andrew Marton, Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson

Starring: Andrew Marton, Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, Lowell Gilmore, John Banner

Director: Compton Bennett

Director: Compton Bennett
Producer: Sam Zimbalist
Screenwriter: Helen Deutsch

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Jan 11, 2005

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  • Before there was an Indiana Jones, there was Allan Quartermain, the stalwart hero of H. Rider Haggard's classic 1885 novel that's been filmed four times. Stewart Granger portrays Quartermain in this 1950 adaptation that was nominated for the Best Picture Academy AwardO and won Oscars? for Color Cinematography and Film Editing. Deborah Kerr plays the prim Englishwoman who hires Quartermain to lead the hunt for her missing husband, even though no safari has ever returned from the uncharted regions their expedition must cross. Part adventure, part spectacle and filmed amid the awesome splendor and peril of untamed Africa, King Solomon's Mines is a film fan's treasure.
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