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King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain Free FREE KING SOLOMONS MINES & ALLAN QUATERMAIN PDF H. Rider Haggard | 496 pages | 05 Feb 1993 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | 9781840226287 | English | Herts, United Kingdom King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain (Allan Quatermain) by H Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines is a action adventure filmthe fourth of five film adaptations of the novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard. It was adapted by Gene Quintano and James R. Silke and directed by J. Lee Thompson. This version of the story was a light, comedic take, deliberately referring to, and parodying Indiana Jones in which franchise actor Rhys-Davies appeared in two installments. It was filmed outside Harare in Zimbabwe. It was followed by a sequel filmed back-to-back Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold and was to be followed by a sequel that was never produced: the first attempt would have been based on She and Allananother King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain novel, and then a second attempt to have been titled Allan Quatermain and the Jewel of the East and directed by producer Golan. Together with his companion, the mysterious Umbopo, they penetrate unknown country, following a map believed to be genuine. It transpires that Professor Huston has been captured by a German military expedition on the same quest, led by Bockner Herbert Loma single-minded knackwurst -munching, bald-headed Colonel and a ruthless Turkish slave -trader and adventurer, Dogati John Rhys-Davieswho is a long-standing adversary of Quatermain. Huston is being forced to interpret another map, also believed to be genuine. The two rival expeditions shadow each other, clashing on several occasions, but Quatermain's group manages to rescue Professor Huston, who confirms the mines are indeed real and he implores Quatermain to stop Bockner and Dogati from finding them. After a few harrowing encounters with both the Germans and some of the local native tribes, they finally enter the tribal lands of the Kukuana who capture them. The tribe is under the control of the evil priestess, Gagoola, who has Quatermain hung upside down over a pond full of crocodiles. Just when all seems lost, Umbopo arrives and after defeating Gagoola's warriors in combat, reveals his identity as an exiled tribal chief and the rightful ruler of the Kukuanas. As the tribesmen submit to him, Bockner and Dogati attack the village in full force. Amid the ensuing chaos, Gagoola captures Jesse and flees into caves in the depths of the Breasts of Sheba, the twin mountain peaks where the mines are located. Quatermain and Umbopo give chase after them and they are in turn pursued by Bockner and Dogati. They follow Quatermain and Umbopo to the entrance to the mines, but are hampered by a moat of quicksand. Bockner orders his men forward into the moat, but they have trouble crossing it. Dogati then shoots down all of Bockner's soldiers, as well as most of his own men, and uses their bodies as stepping stones to cross the moat safely. As they approach the entrance, Bockner shoots Dogati and takes command of what little remains of the party. Inside the mines, Quatermain and Umbopo rescue Jesse and find the resting place of all the former tribal queens, including the Queen of Sheba herself, encased in crystal. Umbopo explains that Gagoola had attempted to sacrifice Jesse in order to keep her power as the Kukuanas' ruler because of Jesse's strong resemblance to the Queen of Sheba. Then Gagoola appears and taunts Umbopo, who pursues her through the caverns. As Bockner and his men arrive next, Quatermain and Jesse flee for safety, but end up in the cavern's treasure chamber, which is full of raw diamonds and other priceless treasures. As they gather some of the diamonds to take with them, Bockner hears their voices from outside the chamber, but before he can enter, Gagoola activates a hidden rock switch and seals King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain and Jesse inside the chamber. The switch also triggers a trap that causes the ceiling of the chamber, which is lined with stalactites to lower on them. Quatermain and Jesse manage to stop the ceiling trap, but then the chamber begins filling up with water. Just as the chamber fills completely, a lit stick of dynamite set by Bockner outside the chamber door explodes, sending King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain both spewing out of the chamber in the resulting flood to safety. Bockner enters the chamber and quickly lays claim to the treasure, only to be confronted by a wounded, but very much alive, Dogati, who was wearing a protective vest that shielded him from the bullets. He then forces Bockner to swallow some of the diamonds, intending to cut him open to retrieve them later on. Meanwhile, Umbopo finally corners Gagoola. But rather than face his judgment, she instead leaps down one of the volcano's shafts and is incinerated when she lands in the molten lava below. However, the reaction causes a series of eruptions throughout the mines. Dogati is partially buried when the treasure chamber's ceiling collapses, but Bockner is King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain. He gloats to Dogati after claiming a few more diamonds for himself, then leaves the chamber. But not before firing his gun at the ruined ceiling, burying Dogati King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain. Quatermain, Jesse and Umbopo quickly flee for their lives through the collapsing caverns. They cross over a small booby- trapped lake which one of Bockner's men fell victim to King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermainonly to be stopped by Bockner, who demands they surrender their diamonds to him. Quatermain places the diamonds on the central stepping stone that triggers the trap and tells Bockner to come take the diamonds himself if he wants them. Bockner does so and falls into the lake, only to be seized in the jaws of a Mokele-mbembe and dragged beneath the water. The trap resets itself and the diamonds rise back to the surface, but Umbopo warns Quatermain and Jesse not to take them, saying they belong to the mountain. The trio continue their escape through the caverns, which becomes even more dangerous as the lava chamber they are in is full of fire and falling rocks. Quatermain tells Umbopo to take Jesse through to safety while he follows them. But before he can do so, he is struck down by Dogati, who survived the cave-in. A brutal fight between them ensues, but Quatermain gains the upper hand at the last instant, sending Dogati falling into the chamber's lava pit to his death. Quatermain manages to escape from the mines at the last minute, just as the volcano explodes, sealing the entrance forever. Returning to the village, Umbopo assumes his rightful place as the ruler of the Kukuanas and he and his people bid a fond farewell to Quatermain and Jesse. As they exit the village, they each reveal they had kept a diamond from the mines as a souvenir of their adventure and the movie ends with them kissing outside the village gates. King Solomon's Mines is not a remake of the old Stewart Granger trek through the jungle. It's a sensational script. It's King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain much a Raiders of the Lost Ark type of movie — very tongue-in-cheek and full of King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain and stunts Bullets flying, lions eating people, witches up in the trees. All that stuff. The film was shot on location in Zimbabwe over ten months. The crew included many Israelis and South Africans which caused some objections from the local Arab population. The Arab League protested the depiction of all the Arab characters as slavers. Richard Chamberlain said, "I happen to think that people are people and I don't care where they come from as long as they do a good job This is a comedy, and one of the best defenses against out-of-date stereotypes is to poke fun at them. It shows how absurd they are. There are King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain too many lines to learn, he said, and the time is taken up with "being chased by natives and animals, cooked in pots", and escaping the perils of "crocodiles, witch-queens, deadly swamps" and so forth. It was shot simultaneously with a sequel. The film's score was composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmithand performed by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra. In Intrada Records released an expanded version, later reissued in ; Prometheus released the complete score in King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain Records issued a two-disc edition in with the Prometheus content on disc one and the original album presentation on disc two. Tracks in bold premiered on the Intrada CD, tracks in italics premiered on the Prometheus edition. Director J. The sequel was directed by television veteran Gary Nelson and King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain a critical and box office disappointment. The Cannon Group had originally planned a trilogy of films, the third film was to be an adaptation of She and Allan but this was ultimately abandoned after the extreme negative reception of Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Goldcoupled with the financial difficulties of the company at the time. The plot concerned Quatermain attempting to rescue his daughter from Chinese treasure hunters in the Congo. According to the documentary Golan: A Farewell to Mr. CinemaRichard Chamberlain had agreed King Solomons Mines & Allan Quatermain return as the title character, but Golan died before the film began shooting. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. King Solomon's Mines Theatrical release poster.
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