1985
PG-13
The Cannon Group
1 h 40 m

1985
PG-13
The Cannon Group
1 h 40 m

Summary Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.

Directed By: J. Lee Thompson

Written By: H. Rider Haggard, Gene Quintano, James R. Silke

1985
PG-13
The Cannon Group
1 h 40 m

1985
PG-13
The Cannon Group
1 h 40 m

King Solomon's Mines

Name: King Solomon's Mines
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Released: 1985-11-22
Duration: 1 min 40 s
Rating: 29
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 4 User Ratings

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Directed By: J. Lee Thompson

Written By: H. Rider Haggard, Gene Quintano, James R. Silke

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Chicago Reader

On the one hand, the action stuff is surprisingly imaginative and well filmed; on the other, the characters are the usual bunch of self-parodic dodoes that the post-Spielberg action cinema has accustomed us to, so it's impossible to believe in the situations anyway.

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Variety

Cannon’s remake of King Solomon’s Mines treads heavily in the footsteps of that other great modern hero, Indiana Jones – too heavily. Where Jones was deft and graceful in moving from crisis to crisis, King Solomon’s Mines is often clumsy with logic, making the action hopelessly cartoonish. Once painted into the corner, scenes don’t resolve so much as end before they spill into the next cliff-hanger.

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The New York Times

And that's the problem. Despite strenuous efforts by Herbert Lom and John Rhys-Davies as a pair of comical villains who can't decide whether they are supposed to be funny or menacing, the story is lost in the effects. As Mr. Chamberlain remarks at one threatening moment, ''Boy, looks like they've thought of everything.''

By Walter Goodman FULL REVIEW

Chicago Tribune

Not a remake of the Stewart Granger-Deborah Kerr epic, this film has been made, so obviously and calculatedly, to capitalize on the success of ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and ''Romancing the Stone,'' seeking their crafty harmony of action, romance and humor. The result is action so ludicrous that it falls consistently between thrilling and amusing and never comes in sufficient amounts of either.

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Time Out

It's stone cold dead on the slab.

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Production Company The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions, Cannon Productions, Cinema '84, Limelight

Release Date Nov 22, 1985

Duration 1 h 40 m

Rating PG-13

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Tagline The adventure of a lifetime

Website https://www.lezetomedia.com/king-solomons-mines/

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Richard Chamberlain

Allan Quatermain

Sharon Stone

Jesse

Herbert Lom

Colonel Bockner

John Rhys-Davies

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Ken Gampu

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June Buthelezi

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Sam Williams

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Shaike Ophir

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Fidelis Cheza

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Mick Lesley

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Vincent Van der Byl

Shack

Bob Greer

Hamid

Oliver Tengende

Bushiri

Neville Thomas

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Dari

Isiah Murert

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