Director Jay Roach's first cut of this movie ran three hours long.
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Sharon Stone once remarked that her contribution to these two films consisted of "a bad hairdo running through the jungle". The difficulties in making the two movies, as well as the collapse of her first marriage, is what convinced her to next work on Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987), in order to have some fun after a difficult period in her life. She said, "Hanging out with a gang of comedians, it was the best therapy".
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Filmed concurrently with its sequel, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986).
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According to her memoirs, Kathleen Turner turned down the role of Jesse.
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According to Richard Chamberlain, when he asked about the film's budget he was told it was about $5 million. It was, he stated, "more like $2.50".
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When Dogati and Quatermain first meet, the former says to Quatermain what sounds like "Inglés", as in "Englishman" (this would be accurate, since Quatermain was English in the novel). It is also possible the "Inglés" quote is a nod to Shogun (1980), in which both John Rhys-Davies and Richard Chamberlain star, the former as a Portuguese navigator and the latter as an English pilot. In Shogun, Rhys-Davies' character often refers to Chamberlain's character as "Ingles".
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Sharon Stone was hired by mistake. Producer Menahem Golan stated "I want that Stone woman" as he wanted Kathleen Turner who was coming off the hit film, Romancing the Stone (1984) to star in this film.
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Richard Chamberlain has said in the years since this film that he felt he had been conned into doing it. He said that the film sold to him to get him onboard bore little relation to how it turned out. He said that it was pitched as a big budget adventure film to rival the Indiana Jones movies, and when he was told who the supporting actors were and that legendary British director J Lee Thompson was directing, it sold it to him completely. However once filming was underway he became aware that severe compromises had been made with some poor special effects, unconvincing film sets, a co-star (Sharon Stone) who was not easy to get on with and a then 70 year old director who was merely going through the motions.
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This film, and its sequel, were made to cash in on the popularity of the "Indiana Jones" films of the 1980s. Supporting cast member John Rhys-Davies appeared in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).
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This is the second time Richard Chamberlain and John Rhys-Davies have worked together. They both starred in the mini-series Shogun (1980).
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The original novel took place in the 1880s or earlier, but this film moves Quatermain's adventures to the era of World War I, in an unusual case of a semi-update.
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This film arrived in theaters in 1985, the year of the 100th anniversary of the first appearance of Allan Quatermain in the novel "King Solomon's Mines" in 1885. The sequel, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986), adapted the novel "Allan Quatermain" (1887).
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Tobe Hooper was attached to direct early in production.
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John Hurt turned down the role of Allan Quatermain.
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Some actors with minor roles are dubbed by Robert Rietty.
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Lucinda Dickey was originally penciled in as Jesse in this film and the next, Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold, but had a falling out with Menehem Golan and Yorum Globus. She was subsequently replaced with Sharon Stone before filming.
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
King Solomon's Mines - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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