King Solomon's Mines (1950) on Netflix
NR19501h 43mActionAdventureRomance
In 1897 British East Africa, Elizabeth Curtis asks safari guide Allan Quatermain to find her husband, who vanished searching for King Solomon's mines. Her brother John Goode joins them.
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Plot summary
Allan Quatermain guides safaris in British East Africa. In 1897 a woman named Elizabeth Curtis seeks him out: her husband disappeared in the unexplored interior while looking for the legendary mines of King Solomon, and she carries a copy of the map he followed. She wants Quatermain to lead her there. Her brother John Goode comes along. Quatermain does not want a woman along, but he accepts the task.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about King Solomon's Mines (1950)
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- After five months of location filming in Africa, Andrew Marton replaced Compton Bennett as director of King Solomon's Mines. MGM said Bennett had fallen ill, but it was rumored that his disagreements with some of the cast were the real cause.
- MGM wanted Errol Flynn to co-star in the film, but Flynn chose to star in Kim instead, and Stewart Granger was signed to play the role in August 1949.
- When Quo Vadis was postponed, MGM elected to shoot King Solomon's Mines on location in Africa, and delivered its production equipment by a convoy of Dodge trucks that traveled a total distance of more than 70,000 miles.
- The cave scene, set in Africa in the story, was actually filmed in Slaughter Canyon Cave at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, and other scenes were shot nearby at Sitting Bull Falls in Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico.
- The production marked the start of Eva Monley's career as a Hollywood script supervisor, producer and location scout who specialised in African locations.
