To the uninitiated Golan/Globus are Cousin's Menahem Golan & Yorham Globus who were prolific producers of trash throughout the 80's making such 'classics' as Death Wish 2,3 & 4 & Missing In Action 1,2 & 3 (basically keeping Charles Bronson & Chuck Norris in work) among seemingly endless amounts of other less than fantastic fare released through their Cannon Film Studio.
So if you come into King Solomon's Mines knowing what to expect (In essence a low budget B-Movie, done with some of the worse dialogue imaginable,terrible visual effects and non-intentional hilarious scenes) you should be able to sit back leave your Brain at the door and enjoy.
While I realise this was made to capitalise on the success of Indiana Jones - Nobody watching this should compare the two, If anything this is a Indy spoof
Richard Chamberlain stars as Allan Quatermain who teams up with a young woman (a Pre-stardom Sharon Stone) to locate her Professor Father who's gone missing in Africa.
This has action in bucket loads, plenty of Comedy (some of it intentional - some of it not), The Acting is very hammy - baddies Herbert Lom is hilarious as is John Rhys Davies
Directed by J.Lee Thompson (The original Cape Fear & The guns of Navarone) A great Director who sadly ended up making trash mostly starring Bronson for Golan/Globus.
Filmed entirely in Zimbabwe - obviously back in that particular Country's good old days - Not Unsurprisingly it bombed taking just $238,000 on a $12,500,000 Budget
It's not great film making, It'll never win any awards (apart from the Razzies) but as B-Movie fun it's good stuff.
Surprisingly followed by a sequel (Yes! there's more) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold was Filmed at the same time and released a year later.
*** out of *****
So if you come into King Solomon's Mines knowing what to expect (In essence a low budget B-Movie, done with some of the worse dialogue imaginable,terrible visual effects and non-intentional hilarious scenes) you should be able to sit back leave your Brain at the door and enjoy.
While I realise this was made to capitalise on the success of Indiana Jones - Nobody watching this should compare the two, If anything this is a Indy spoof
Richard Chamberlain stars as Allan Quatermain who teams up with a young woman (a Pre-stardom Sharon Stone) to locate her Professor Father who's gone missing in Africa.
This has action in bucket loads, plenty of Comedy (some of it intentional - some of it not), The Acting is very hammy - baddies Herbert Lom is hilarious as is John Rhys Davies
Directed by J.Lee Thompson (The original Cape Fear & The guns of Navarone) A great Director who sadly ended up making trash mostly starring Bronson for Golan/Globus.
Filmed entirely in Zimbabwe - obviously back in that particular Country's good old days - Not Unsurprisingly it bombed taking just $238,000 on a $12,500,000 Budget
It's not great film making, It'll never win any awards (apart from the Razzies) but as B-Movie fun it's good stuff.
Surprisingly followed by a sequel (Yes! there's more) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold was Filmed at the same time and released a year later.
*** out of *****