King Solomon's Mines (1950) | |
| Director(s) | Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton |
| Producer(s) | Sam Zimbalist |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Exotic Lands, Treasure |
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King Solomon's Mines (1950) was a Adventure - Romance Film directed by Andrew Marton and Compton Bennett and produced by Sam Zimbalist.
Academy Awards 1950 --- Ceremony Number 23 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Picture | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Nominated |
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Allan Quatermain:
...in the end you begin to accept it all... you watch things hunting and being hunted, reproducing, killing and dying, it's all endless and pointless, except in the end one small pattern emerges from it all, the only certainty: one is born, one lives for a time then one dies, that is all...
Allan Quatermain: The only way out of this is... suffocation.
Allan Quatermain: Stupid waste, this safari. All of it! Half our supplies gone now, after that all-night stampede. Wasted! Waste of time, supplies, and lives.
Elizabeth Curtis: Glares at him, too sleepy to argue.
Allan Quatermain: Well, I hope the lady enjoyed it!
Elizabeth Curtis: Ignores him.
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Allan Quatermain: The only way out of this is... suffocation.
Allan Quatermain: Stupid waste, this safari. All of it! Half our supplies gone now, after that all-night stampede. Wasted! Waste of time, supplies, and lives.
Elizabeth Curtis: Glares at him, too sleepy to argue.
Allan Quatermain: Well, I hope the lady enjoyed it!
Elizabeth Curtis: Ignores him.
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Facts about
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie onDecember 1, 1952 with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger reprising their film roles.
The location footage in this film, especially the various animals, was re-used as stock footage for dozens of films in the fifties and later, including Tarzan, the Ape Man, Watusi and the 1973 version of Trader Horn.
In 1958, MGM reissued this film on a double bill with Rogue Cop.
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The location footage in this film, especially the various animals, was re-used as stock footage for dozens of films in the fifties and later, including Tarzan, the Ape Man, Watusi and the 1973 version of Trader Horn.
In 1958, MGM reissued this film on a double bill with Rogue Cop.
read more facts about King Solomon's Mines...
