“King Solomon’s Mines” has everything: Action, adventure, romance, fantastic scenery. It is the story of a veteran explorer who agrees to help an Englishwoman and her brother search for her long-lost husband on a trek through unexplored Africa. The filming in Technicolor on location in Uganda, Kenya, Tanganika, and the Belgian Congo won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Robert L. Surtees. (One other Oscar was awarded for Best Film Editing.)
MGM assembled a top rate production team for this big screen adaptation of Henry Rider Haggard’s 1885 novel: Producer Sam Zimbalist, directors Compton Bennett (“The Seventh Veil” 1945) and Andrew Marton (“Miss President” 1935), and screenwriter Helen Deutsch.
Stars Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson capably filled the top roles in the picture, with support from Hugo Haas, Lowell Gilmore, John Banner, Henry Roland, Kimursi, Siriaque, Sekaryongo, and Baziga. The very watchable “King Solomon’s Mines” was a big hit at the box office, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s top money-maker of 1950. A remake was released in 1985 starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone.
King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
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My Review
“King Solomon’s Mines” has everything: Action, adventure, romance, fantastic scenery. It is the story of a veteran explorer who agrees to help an Englishwoman and her brother search for her long-lost husband on a trek through unexplored Africa. The filming in Technicolor on location in Uganda, Kenya, Tanganika, and the Belgian Congo won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Robert L. Surtees. (One other Oscar was awarded for Best Film Editing.)
MGM assembled a top rate production team for this big screen adaptation of Henry Rider Haggard’s 1885 novel: Producer Sam Zimbalist, directors Compton Bennett (“The Seventh Veil” 1945) and Andrew Marton (“Miss President” 1935), and screenwriter Helen Deutsch.
Stars Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, and Richard Carlson capably filled the top roles in the picture, with support from Hugo Haas, Lowell Gilmore, John Banner, Henry Roland, Kimursi, Siriaque, Sekaryongo, and Baziga. The very watchable “King Solomon’s Mines” was a big hit at the box office, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s top money-maker of 1950. A remake was released in 1985 starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone.