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Synopsis: The search for the legendary King Solomon's diamond mines leads a group of brave explorers deep into perilous Africa. Stars Stewart Granger ("The Prisoner of Zenda," "Green Fire" ) and Oscar-winner Debora Kerr ("From Here to Eternity").
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger
Supporting actors: Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, Lowell Gilmore, Kimursi, Siriaque, Sekaryongo, Baziga, Munto Anampio, John Banner, Benempinga, Gutare, Ivargwema, Henry Rowland
Directed by: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Action
Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
Release year: 1950
Studio: Warner Bros.
ASIN: B000J63NHC (Rental) and B000J6710C (Purchase)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,595 in Amazon Video On Demand (See Bestsellers in Amazon Video On Demand)
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Theatrical Release Information
  • US Theatrical Release Date: November 23, 1950
  • Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • Filming Locations: Carlsbad Caverns National Park - 3225 National Parks Highway, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA | Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Democratic Republic Of Congo | Kenya | Slaughter Canyon Cave, Carlsbad Caverns National Park - 3225 National Parks Highway, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA | Tanzania | Uganda | Biondo, Democratic Republic Of Congo | California, USA | Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA | Hell's Gate National Park, Kenya | Lone Pine, California, USA | New Mexico, USA | Tanganjika, Tanzania
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars My all-time favorite movie - but it's evidently been edited, July 9, 2003
This review is from: King Solomon's Mines (1950) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I first saw this movie as a little girl and watched it on TV a couple more times over the years. It's absolutely the most thrilling, wonderful movie ever made. But WHAT HAPPENED??? There is at least one tribal dance that has just disappeared -- nowhere to be found in this video. There is one dance still left in the movie, near the end, that is also exciting, but the one I remember the most is where the natives do these incredible jumps and the most wonderful, amazing movements that were all synchronized and fascinating to watch. You could tell they were working themselves into a frenzy to attack the whites, and they were very hostile and truly frightening, so maybe that's not acceptable by today's standards. Did the PC police get to this tape? The VHS running time is 103 minutes. I wonder what the running time of the original film was. I would have given this 5 stars except for my awful disappointment about the omitting of the dancing. Does anyone know where I can get an uncut version? Also, why isn't there a DVD? Maybe there would be an explanation or even out-takes of the dancing.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning adventure movie., May 15, 2000
By AJ "AJ" (Delaware, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: King Solomon's Mines (1950) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Even fifty years after its original release, King Solomon's Mines is still one of the best adventure movies ever. Featuring a talented cast and beautiful outdoor camerawork this movie is an often copied, but never surpassed forerunner of the Indiana Jones' style stories. Granger and Kerr make the most of their respective roles creating real live human beings instead of the usual cardboard action figures that the audience has come to expect in this sort of movie and the animal stampede scene, often replayed in later movies' makes for one of the greatest motionpicture events ever.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest Adventures of alltime!, March 9, 2005
By Daniel G. Madigan (Redmond, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Solomon's Mines (DVD)
King Solomon's Mines features breathtaking photography of African wild life with the main stars in the actual locales. The stampede scene with Kerr and Granger left to their own devices along with the directors, is unbelievable in every sense.Nothing like it until the Buffalo stampede in the otherwise dismal How The West Was Won."
Kerr and Granger are great actors;they invest their roles with great faith in what they are doing,entirely missing in current films of the same genre.

The gorgeous Technicolor, the Watusi dances, later inspiring Bob Fosse, and the great Andrew Marton at the healm, directing with flair and wit and uncommon daring. No computer driven action scenes here.

I love the cynicism of the film, Quatermain's idea of life summed up for him in the games the natives play. And Deborah Kerr, stepping into every dangerous hole and crevice where terrible creatures lurk..excellent in every way.

Buy this and be amazed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful classic!! They don't make em' anymore!!
Great old movie!! One of my favorites! And super fast shipping too!!
They don't make movies like this anymore. Great actors, and great animal footage of Africa. Read more
Published 5 hours ago by Ronald Stephen Kilday

3.0 out of 5 stars splashy Technicolor remake of the adventure classic
Screenwriter Helen Deutsch almost threw the baby out with the bath-water when she crafted her script for KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1950), based on the beloved adventure novel from Sir... Read more
Published 6 days ago by Byron Kolln

3.0 out of 5 stars Cinematic Safari
This classic movie appeared when I was about ten, and I can remember laughing at some of the more unlikely moments in the film. Read more
Published 2 months ago by William Bunker

3.0 out of 5 stars Living White Man Superiority
A 1950-year movie (first in the line of the followed?) is a perfect example of how viewers' taste shifted from the middle of the last century, even not since 1897 the story is of... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Michael Kerjman

4.0 out of 5 stars "A woman? A woman on safari?! No thank you!!" Allan Quatermain is about to learn a thing or two
Henry Curtis, an Englishman who arrived in Africa to search for the legendary King Solomon's mines, has not been heard from in two years. Read more
Published 4 months ago by C. O. DeRiemer

5.0 out of 5 stars What a GREAT movie!
At age 52, I have just watched King Solomon's Mines for the first time; Wow!, what a great movie-I loved it. I can't believe I had never seen it before. Read more
Published 8 months ago by R. Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines is truly one the best movies about Africa. The scenery is spectacular. The story seemed to be a never-ending confrontation with wild animals however it was... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Vern E. Antry

5.0 out of 5 stars More Hollywood than Haggard, but still a terrific yarn
Written as a bet that he couldn't come up with a better adventure story than Treasure Island, H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has proved itself a hardy perennial over the... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Trevor Willsmer

5.0 out of 5 stars King Solomon's Mines
What can I say? It's a classic, and I love it. The stampede scene is worth the price all by itself.
Published 16 months ago by Alice Duncan

3.0 out of 5 stars A Vehicle For Its Stars
Hollywood kept very little of author Sir H. Rider Haggard's plot in this version of his book. In actuality, so much is changed that the movie bears little resemblance to the... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Richard K. Radek

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