King Solomon's Mines

This is the closet you will come to a spinoff of The Indiana Jones movies. Although not nowhere as good as Raiders Of The Lost Ark, this is a entertaining movie to watch. Plenty of action/adventure and humor throughout. Richard Chamberlain does a good job playing Allan Quartermain. A adventurer that is hired by a archeologist (Sharon Stone in one of her earlier film roles.) to find her farther and then find King Solomon's Mines. They race to get there before a German Colonel (Herbert Lom, The Pink Panther series) and a Turkish Slave Trader (John Rhys-Davies, Raiders of The Lost Ark) get there first. Released by Cannon Pictures in 1985 it made a little over 15 million against a 12.5 million dollar budget. It was no box office smash, but it was no major flop either. I think it's one of the better movies to come out of Cannon Studio's.They was known to release lots of bad movies. The Blu-Ray looks pretty good and has 2.0 sound. The bad thing about it is that it doesn't have any extras on the disc. Not even a trailer. A 5 to 10 minute feature on the history of the movie would have been alright then having nothing. I waited for the price to drop to $13.99 before I got it. $19.99 is a little to much for a Blu-Ray with no extras. But other then that, I'm glad to see this movie on video again.

Two attractive leads, energetic non-stop peril, creature feature monsters, totally unrealistic derring-do, what more do you want? It's not serious folks, it's just plain fun! A bit of horror, a bit of the macabre, a little romance, impossible heroics, cliff-hanging dangers at every turn - everything you ever wanted when you were a kid. So be a kid for a little while and just enjoy. Don't quibble over plots or realism or special effects. Grow-up for gosh sakes and take what you get and say "Thank you!" Woo-hoo!

It looked like an interesting movie at first, but after thirty minutes of watching it, I had to turn it off and opted to watch something else. From what I saw, I thought It was really, really dumb. Obviously, it looks like the Cannon Group intended to do their version of an Indiana Jones-type adventure story, but failed badly. I also think their strategy of importing Indiana Jones vet John Rhys-Davies into the film was so ridiculously obvious. It was like Rhys-Davies was a good luck charm for the movie. Nice try.Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone looked good, I mean, of course, Chamberlain and Stone are beautiful people, but I thought the acting was too shlocky. They probably had fun making the movie, but I quickly became bored with their performance.There are better adventure movies out there; this is not one of them.

So campy. But so very enjoyable.I wish they were able to make more than two films with him portraying the character.One of my favorite lines, that gets a meaningful call back is when a stick of lit dynamite is found and the words "I found it!" are shouted. The reactions are very entertaining.This movie is not Star Wars, or Gone With the Wind "quality" (elitist uff da).It is, however, a very fun 80s movie romp.Grab some popcorn, plop onto the couch, turn it on, and just be transported away into a fun and dangerous world of adventure.Herbert Lom is great as the Proud Prussian officer. :-DBuy it and relax and enjoy.

I really wanted to love the movie because I like Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. But it's a boring and stereotypical adventure cartoonish movie. No way to compare this movie to Indian Jones. I've watched every Indiana Jones movie ten times, and I still love to watch it again.

This one is so bad I do not have a clue where top begin. Pick any category and it was really bad. Does Amazon have negative stars?

Love this film, it has a great cast, and must be said that Sharon Stone beats any of the side female Indiana Jones characters. Many compare the films together especially considering the cast of John Rhys-Davies who with Herbert Lom make a great set of protagonists.What I think makes this film is the direction of J. Thompson, director of such films as Cape Fear, The Guns of Navarone, and Flame Over India, and huge range of other great films.The main concern I had in King Solomon's Mines was what would the crocodile scene (green screen) look like on the Blu-ray transfer considering it look absolutely horrible on the dvd? Well the Blu-ray version is a huge improvement on the transfer with the close up shots of Richard Chamberlain over the crocodiles looking less fake, and more believable.

A comedy concerning human greed and love. Satirical German references overdone maybe. When things go your way, it is best to keep trying. The acting superb. Kudos to Herbert Lom . Special effects were extremely good as was the sceery and supporting cast of thousands.

In this 1985 adventure, Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone) hires Allan Quatermain [Richard Chamberlain] to find her father, believed lost on an expedition to find the fabled King Solomon's Mines. Discovering that Professor Huston has been captured by a German military expedition on the same quest, the two rival expeditions clash as they shadow each other, but will our intrepid heroes get there first. What do you think?A rip roaring fun adventure and the third of five film adaptations of the 1885 novel of the same name by Henry Rider Haggard. Full of corny gags, over the top stereo typical characters, obvious plots and slapstick situations, an naive heroine and dashing hero, this is fun all the way. Herbert Lom is superb as the a single-minded knackwurst-munching, bald-headed German Colonel Bockner and John Rhys-Davies makes a fine villainous and ruthless Turkish adventurer and slave-trader.The single disc opens to language screen [English. German, French, Italian, castellano] before going to a main menu offering play, scene selection, language options [as languages minus the Italian, subtitles in most European languages] and the trailer.This is a PG rating done in the day when violence was acceptable entertainment as there are some gruesome deaths from the start, face slapping and scenes of hilarious torture. Featuring two of the worlds leading sex symbols of the day, what’s not to like. A definite ***** adventure in the best ‘heroic’ tongue in cheek tradition for all the family.

A great & fun film from the 1980s. Loads of continuity errors but none the less, it’s great escapism from the real world. It was never going to win any Oscars, but if you just want to be entertained for 90 minutes or so by a "boys adventure film" then this film should fit the bill. None stop action, good comic moments and a good music score. Not as good as Stewart Granger’s version, but Richard Chamberlain does a grand job.

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines is one of those stories where it often feels that only the title and the odd character name have been filmed. If there were a prize for the least faithful version, Cannon's 1985 romp would win hands down. Richard Chamberlain's Great White Hunter Allan Quatermain may be a reluctant guide on a quest for the fabled mines, but this time his only companion is Sharon Stone, eager to save her archaeologist father from Herbert Lom's dastardly and cartoonish Wagner-loving German officer (the plot has been updated to pre-WW1 Africa). No prizes for guessing that this is inspired more by Indiana Jones than H. Rider Haggard (it even co-stars John Rhys-Davies as another Arab, this time on the bad guys' side), with the stunts increasingly outrageous and the tone firmly tongue in cheek.Shot almost back-to-back with the dire Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold and originally brandishing the how-are-they-ever-going-to-fit-that-on-the-marquees title Allan Quatermain and King Solomon's Mines and the Lost Caves of Death, it's a film almost as overloaded as it's rejected title: for the first half or so it's surprisingly entertaining, but eventually the relentless energy starts to wear you down as you realise that the film's used up most of its best stunts and jokes and is running out of clichés to rehash and lampoon. Certainly there's nothing in the second half to match a comic marketplace chase or a very silly train rescue that sees Quatermain work his way through variations of Indy's truck chase before skiing along the rails as he holds on by his bullwhip... In many ways, DVD is an almost ideal way to see it: a little too much to sit through in one go, a self-created intermission certainly helps.Chamberlain makes an amiable if overly reliant on dynamite Quatermain, though Stone is an irritatingly screeching heroine and Lom too much of an over the top caricature to provide much threat. J. Lee Thompson keeps it moving, Jerry Goldsmith contributes an enjoyably heroic score and there's enough of a sense of fun to paper over the weak spots.

Good for a laugh, no where near as good as the Stewart Granger version. The makers threw in a few dollars and made a quick mish mash of a film.

This is an entertaining cliche action movie but the DVD is the most awful transfer, my ancient VHS copy is better !Sound quality was good on Dolby Prologic surroundYour better off watching this on Film 4 when it gets broadcast again and pvr it!