Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ... Read allThree adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
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Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Oldest Club Member
- (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
Véronique Béliveau
- Neva
- (as Veronique Béliveau)
Hugh Rouse
- Reverend McKenzie
- (as Hugh Rowse)
Ian De Voy
- Club Member
- (uncredited)
Terry-Thomas
- Capt. Good R.N. (rehearsed only)
- (uncredited)
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John colicos as alan quartermain is as bad as throwing out the baby with the bath water ...why not david ? in fact why not anyone else ? bufoonary at its best, but i'd watch britt eckland in anything if she got naked
First I want to point out that I'm a really big fan of David McCallum and I like Patrick MacNee very much. But why did those Sixties-TV-Series-Idols do this movie? Couldn't have been the money (obvious if you consider tricks and settings). I hardly find words to describe this mess of a film. Every "Godzilla"- or "Harryhausen"-movie looks more real than this. It's O.K. for a black & white movie from the 50s, but this one is from 77 (and in colour)!!! The story is always the same. Treasure-hunt, lost civilization, a lovely princess and the unavoidable catastrophe in the end (volcano in this case). If you like bad movies (I mean real bad) please watch it. Otherwise forget about it. It is so bad you can't even laugh about it. Now I know why it is hard to get. I wonder why this isn't made by Alan Smithee...
I love adventure novels, and am a huge fan of H. Rider Haggard, so when I saw the vhs copy of this film at a yardsale I just had to pick it up. Was it worth it? Yes, I will say it is. Do not listen to the haters, this film is not that bad. It still has its problems though. The production wasnt great so the sound gets kind of low and warbly during some segments. Also the effects are lackluster, but I can forgive that for this being a LOW-BUDGET film from the 1970'S, also for the fact that the director was a TV director, and this film was the only cinema released film he did along with one other film which I have not seen. So i can forgive that issue at least. But the film has some fast paced action scenes and actual tension placed neatly. If you are a fan of old style adventure films, and treasure hunts for that matter, this would be your kind of film.
6 out of 10.
This movie is awful in every way. I can only infer that the Foley Artist was drunk because, although the lip synch is fine, the sound effects are inordinately out of time. But correcting this would merely have been stecoration of an already mammoth pile of fecal matter.
Dinosaurs, monsters that never existed, a stuttering coward Sir Henry, a womanizing pool sharp Captain Good and video so dark and blurred it hard to see anything. The best thing about the movie was it's ending, no, not how it ended but that the torturous movie finally ended.
I didn't want to give it a one star but that was the lowest I could go.
I didn't want to give it a one star but that was the lowest I could go.
Did you know
- TriviaPatrick Macnee was hired at the last minute to replace Terry-Thomas, who was forced to withdraw due to his suffering from bronchial pneumonia.
- GoofsAt minute 1:19:15 a piece of stonework which would weigh several hundred to a thousand pounds falls from the top of the building and bounces off one the fleeing citizens.
- Alternate versionsThe Alpha DVD is missing roughly the first 45 seconds of the Wilfrid Hyde-White prologue that opens the film.
- ConnectionsRemade as Allan Quatermain et la Cité de l'or perdu (1986)
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- Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Treasure
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- CA$1,200,000 (estimated)
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