King Solomon’s Mines 1950 123movies

Watch: King Solomon’s Mines 1950 123movies, Full Movie Online – Guide Allan Quatermain helps a young lady (Beth) find her lost husband somewhere in Africa. It’s a spectacular adventure story with romance, because while they fight with wild animals and cannibals, they fall in love. Will they find the lost husband and finish the nice connection?.
Plot: Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 6,326
	92% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 80 Popularity: 6.53 | TMDB

Reviews:

Simply a great movie!
Aaron Copland believed great art goes hand in hand with simplicity. This movie is simple and great. I was browsing on the internet when I discovered some reviews of the R-1 DVD which heavily criticize the movie (and not just the DVD). I gave a quick look at IMDb to discover that, quite amazingly to me, the movie has only a 6.8 rating, that it has only been rated by less than a thousand viewers and that many viewer apparently found it boring. Let me just emphasize what should be obvious: this version of ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ is not an action movie. It is probably best described as an invitation to Africa, combined with a reflexion on various aspects of what it means to be human. It many respects, it foreshadows and complements Clint Eastwood’s ‘White Hunter, Black Heart’.

Let me mention just one striking ‘detail’: what’s going on on screen is SO fascinating that no music has been added to the various sounds emanating from the country or from the music instruments of the African people themselves. This was a daring move, especially at the time, but it enriched the movie enormously.

I will end this quick review with a piece of advice: Your mind should be as free as possible from everyday’s life various troubles if you want to enjoy this movie. Pick up a night when you are already rather relaxed, and immerse yourself gently into the atmosphere created by the filmmakers. You won’t regret it.

Realistic African adventure with Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr
“King Solomon’s Mines” tells the story of a woman (Deborah Kerr) and her brother (Richard Carlson) who hire a white hunter (Stewart Granger) in central Africa in the late 1800s to track down her missing husband who went in search of the fabled mines.

It should be understood that this classic 1950 adventure film is just that – a realistic adventure film and not an action movie, although there are some brief action scenes, of course. I say “realistic” in the sense that the story is taken seriously; there’s no Tarzan or Indiana Jones and practically everything that happens is within the realm of possibility.

The film was shot in central Africa – Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania –with desert scenes shot at Death Valley and nearby Lone Pine, CA, and the cave scenes at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. The locations are incredible, to say the least, but the desert scenes beg the question: What desert did they run into in the jungles of central Africa? The only possible answer is that they went so far south they hit the Kalahari Desert.

Like I said, this is a realistic adventure film (there’s a slight romantic subplot but it’s hardly worth mentioning). As such, be prepared for a cool hike into remotest Africa and the various fascinating tribes and animals thereof. Some criticize the film for showcasing too many animals, as if it’s a zoological tour as much as a story, but the film was shot in 1949 and deepest Africa was still a mystery to the average person outside of Africa, which is why it’s known as the “dark continent.” Speaking of which, this was before Western Civilization reached (or infected) all the tribes in the interior and so the tribespeople appear authentic. If you were to go there today you’d see them walking around with tennis shoes, jeans and AC/DC shirts.

Speaking of authenticity, the filmmakers made the wise decision to omit a conventional score and utilized percussion-oriented tribal music. This keeps the film from being unnecessarily dated with one of those horrible old-fashioned scores from the period.

As far as the tribespeople go, the towering Watutsi are magnificent and the sequences at their awesome kingdom are a highlight.

Lastly, you have to take into consideration that the story is condensed into a 103-minute time frame and certain segments of the story take much longer than shown, like the cavern sequence or the hike across the desert. The filmmakers obviously didn’t want the film to bog down with overlong sequences.

BOTTOM LINE: This is a great film for when you’re in the mood for a realistic old-fashioned African adventure without Tarzan, Cheeta or Indiana Jones. Granger stands out as the uber-masculine hunter and Kerr is striking as the adamant redhead, but she’s revealed as too weak at times, which isn’t cool today.

GRADE: B+

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Action, Adventure, Romance
Director Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Writer Helen Deutsch, H. Rider Haggard
Actors Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson
Country United States
Awards Won 2 Oscars. 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Technicolor 3-strip camera
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,809 m (11 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman Kodachrome 5267)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm