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Date: 2008-01-11 15:25:30 User: AlexOsipov This new agreeable version from H. Rider Haggard adventures follows again to Allan Quatermain(one of the members of the League of extraordinaries gentlemen)played by an old-looking Patrick Swayze.He's leading a safari in search of legendary diamonds mines and save the damsel's father(John Standing).He's accompanied by a gorgeous woman(Alison Doody)and a captain(Roy Mardsen)among others.They are pursued by a Russian soldiers and must to confront against natives,animals and several dangers and risks until to find the king Salomon's mines. This overlong television picture displays exciting action,numerous shoot-outs,extraordinaries adventures and outlandish cliffhanger situations abound.Patrick Swayze(unforgettable in Dirty dancing) as Quatermain is wooden, I miss Stewart Granger in the classical from 1950s(Compton Bennett,Andrew Marton and with Debora Kerr).Alison Doody as her partner and lover is better,later of ?Indiana Jones and the last crusade?roller-coaster which made her a successful star, she played a few more films and did some publicity but in 1994 she retired and went back to Ireland where she married a magnate.Alison finally came out of retirement but she realized how much she missing acting though she never regretted quitting movies to take care of her family and after divorce she has decided to give another chance to her acting career and is slowly coming back to performance and shooting this remake . Anothers version of this known story are directed by Robert Stevenson,Kurt Neumann(titled Watusi with George Montgomery)and J.L.Thompson(with Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone).The film is produced by Larry Levinson and Robert Halmi, famed producers of big budget television movies based on historic events or remakes. The motion picture is finely directed by Steve Boyum(Time cop II).   You have to register to leave a comment...   Back to the King Solomons Mines movie download page