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Following WWI, fortune hunter Allen Quartermain's son Harry travels to Africa to search for King Solomon's mines. He dons a special medallion given by his father from the Watusi tribe, who guard the mines. Along the way, Harry and his friend Rick meet and take with them Erica, daughter of a missionary killed by a local tribe.
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Audiences 55GoodWatch 57
IMDb5.5
Box office
3.2×its budget
- Budget
- $485 K
- Worldwide
- $2 M
Worldwide it earned $1 M more than it cost.
Running time
1 h 25 min
Shorter than most adventure movies, −18 min on the typical 103
typical 10385Half of all adventure movies run 93–120 min.
Released
1959
March 25, 1959
67 years ago
Genre
AdventureLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
and 4 moreDirecting · 5
- Kurt Neumann Director
- Al Alt Assistant Director
- William Shanks Assistant Director
- Jack N. Reddish Assistant Director
- Grace Dubray Script Supervisor
Writing · 2
- James Clavell Writer
- H. Rider Haggard Novel
Production · 3
- Al Zimbalist Producer
- Bobby Webb Casting
- Donald Zimbalist Associate Producer
Camera · 1
- Kenny Bell Still Photographer
Editing · 2
- William B. Gulick Editor
- Jerome F. Brady Assistant Editor
Sound · 2
- Franklin Milton Sound Supervisor
- Kurt Hernfeld Sound Editor
Art · 4
- Henry Grace Set Decoration
- Otto Siegel Set Decoration
- William A. Horning Art Direction
- Malcolm Brown Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up · 4
- William Tuttle Makeup Artist
- Sydney Guilaroff Hairstylist
- Loren Cosand Makeup Artist
- Janet Gordan Hairdresser
Other crew · 2
- Lee LeBlanc Special Effects
- Harold E. Wellman Cinematography
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