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King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Director: J Lee Thompson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Haggard's magnificently cynical Allan Quartermain gives way to Richard Chamberlain's bland incompetent, a man with the sex appeal of a sheep and the comic timing of a manatee. Sharon Stone is trapped in the role of a silly woman who needs rescuing, much like the heroine of the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom farrago, a film which this clearly imitates. The friendly Umbopo turns out, for reasons a shade obscure, to be Twala, the book's bad number. And the feral relentlessness of tribal bloodshed is nowhere to be seen; instead there are comic Huns with pointy helmets and bad manners. It's stone cold dead on the slab. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: J Lee Thompson
Producer: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, Bernard Archard, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 100 mins
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