King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines (1937)

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

Date of release
1937-06-17
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama
Director
Robert Stevenson

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines is a 1937 British adventure film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, John Loder and Roland Young. A film adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same name by Henry Rider Haggard, the film was produced by the Gaumont British Picture Corporation at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. Sets were designed by art director Alfred Junge. Of all the novel's adaptations, this film is considered to be the most faithful to the book.

Production

Gaumont-British announced the film in 1935 and Paul Robeson was signed in 1936. Filming began in Shepherd's Bush, London in November 1936, and the unit then travelled to Africa for a further eight weeks of work. It was one of the series of films made by Gaumont set in the British Empire.

Charles Bennett is credited as one of the writers, but he claimed that he "didn't really" contribute to the screenplay. He said that he was opposed to the idea of a woman going along on the trip ("it was a damn silly idea") and took himself off the project.

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