Product Description: Based on H. Rider Haggard s 1887 novel this swaggering action-adventure reteams Richard Chamberlain ('The Thorn Birds') and Oscar® nominee* Sharon Stone (Casino) as explorers immersed in perpetual jungle jeopardy. Also starring Oscar® nominee** James Earl Jones (The Lion King) Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is a safari you don't want to miss!When his brother disappears in Africa stalwart explorer Allan Quatermain (Chamberlain) postpones his wedding and sets off on a trek to find him. Joined by his feisty archeologist fianc e (Stone) a towering warrior (Jones) and a greedy mystic (Robert Donner) Quatermain leads the way through the perilous jungle until he finally makes it to the Lost City of Gold...where the road to his brother s salvation is paved with the greatest dangers yet!*1995: Actress Casino**1970: Actor The Great White HopeSystem Requirements:Running Time: 100 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG UPC: 027616902047 Manufacturer No: 1005973
Amazon.com: Despite the critical drubbing and box-office failure of King Solomon's Mines (1985), Cannon Films released this sequel two years later, again featuring Richard Chamberlain as adventurer Allan Quatermain and a pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone; the result is marginally better than its predecessor, and may please 'bad film' fans. This time around, Quatermain is seeking his brother (Martin Rabbett), who has disappeared while on an expedition to locate a legendary white tribe in Africa. Quatermain's search leads him to the title city, which is controlled by evil Henry Silva (overacting with relish). Director Gary Nelson and returning writer Gene Quintano achieve a few more half-hearted laughs here than in its predecessor, and the cast, which includes James Earl Jones and Cassandra 'Elvira' Peterson, do their best with the material, but this can't hold a candle to the 1937 and 1950 film versions of King Solomon's Mines. --Paul Gaita
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Rating: - Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of, er, White
"Half of Africa's been explored on rumor, hope, legend..." "And blood" The same could be said of the film industry. The 'recupero,' as the Italian film industry dubbed it, was one of the most forlornly hopeful forms of film-making: offsetting part of the cost of the film you wanted to make by filming another on the cheap back-to-back with as many of the same cast, crew and locations as possible in the hope that at least one of them would be a hit even though just about the only recorded case of that ever happening was when Il Magnifico Straniero, shot back-to-back with Bullets Don't Argue to 'use up waste materials,' became a surprise hit after changing its title to Fistful of Dollars. Much loved by exploitation merchants, it was no surprise that Cannon films would adopt the practice, especially after their two back-to-back Missing in Action pictures proved surprisingly profitable. Having ripped off Rambo, Indiana ... Read More
Rating: - A sequel to MINES
KING SOLOMON'S MINES and ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD are typically over-shadowed by the bigger budget INDIANA JONES trilogy. There is good reason for that; the IJ movies are the apex of the action movie genre. However, that's not a good reason NOT to watch these two flicks.
The films detail the exploits of a hero named Allan Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) and his girlfriend / fiancee Jessie (Sharon Stone). Together they make up a sort of Indiana Jones character as he is an adventureman while she is a scholar / philologist.
The two films lead them to exotic places where they must fend off natives as well as bad guys who are out to kill them. THE LOST CITY OF GOLD also features James Earl Jones as a friend of Allan's who joins them in their adventure.
The lost city of gold itself seems to be @ least loosely based on the mythical Eldorado which Voltaire made so ... Read More
Rating: - Great fun and adventure
The charactors Kept me laughing and on the edge of my seat. And Richard Chamberlain is plain hot.
Rating: - A throwback to the bad old days
Once upon a time somebody released a movie called Raiders of the Lost Ark, which did very well at the box office. There was a scramble to cash in on its success, and so, some Hollywood types decided to re-make Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines with Richard Chamberlain and the relatively unknow Sharon Stone. It wasn't a bad movie, but it was no masterpiece either. As the making of the movie progressed, Miss Stone's garments kept shrinking in the wash. The makers, realising that this might save the box office receipts decided to accelerate the trend, and, halfway through one scene her Bombay bloomers miraculously transformed themselves in to hot pants.
Subseqently, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was released and was a hit, to they released a sequel to King Solomon's Mines called Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold, with the same cast as before, to cash in again.
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