This afternoon I watched King Solomon's Mines. Not a really bad film (although definitely poor) it was just that in 2 hours and 5 minutes they got the plot right for about 30 seconds. It just happens that KSM is one of my favourite books. There is no female sex element (the one woman who has any size of part is a wizened old crone), it is Henry Curtis who employs Allan Quartermain (in the film he is dead before the beginning), it takes over an hour and a half to get to the desert (less than quarter of the book), the fight due top the rebellion is not between two men, it is between large armies, the entrance to the room in the rock where the jewels are is operated by some unseen lever and is closed in a similar way, not by a native creating a rock fall. And these are only a few of the anomalies.
There was one slight improvement. When they reach Kukuanaland the thing that frightens the natives is not a rifle shot it is Good nervously fiddling with his false teeth. Maybe the rifle shot is better.
There was one slight improvement. When they reach Kukuanaland the thing that frightens the natives is not a rifle shot it is Good nervously fiddling with his false teeth. Maybe the rifle shot is better.
