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1	!!''King Solomon's Mines'' (book)
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3	* GoldenTranslator: The book was translated/[[{{woolseyism}} reworked]] in Portuguese by eminent 19th-century Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz. His translation has been itself [[RecursiveImport translated into other languages]].
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5	!!''King Solomon's Mines'' (1937 film)
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7	* CaliforniaDoubling: Aside from a few exteriors and establishing shots, the film was shot in England.
8	* TheCastShowoff: Music/PaulRobeson, the baritone singer, plays Ignosi, and gets to sing a few songs.
9	* CreatorBacklash: Charles Bennett, one of the writers, hated the idea of including a female character and took his name off the film.
10	* FakeShemp: For the scenes shot on location in South Africa, doubles and stand-ins were used, as none of the lead actors travelled there for the shoot.
11	* MissingEpisode: The film was thought lost for years until it randomly turned up in the Pinewood vault.
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13	!!''King Solomon's Mines'' (1950 film)
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15	* BillingDisplacement: Creator/DeborahKerr is billed before Creator/StewartGranger, who was unknown in the US at the time.
16	* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted except for the desert scenes, which were filmed in New Mexico.
17	* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: An elephant stampede was filmed on location, but the footage was lost when the [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere cast and crew had to abruptly flee the stampeding animals]]. It was recreated using trained elephants in Hollywood.
18	* PlayingWithCharacterType: Creator/DeborahKerr once again plays an EnglishRose...who has to undergo an AdrenalineMakeover to survive in the African jungle.
19	* RomanceOnTheSet: Rumour had it that the sexual tension between Stewart Granger and Creator/DeborahKerr crossed over into real life too, with the two actors having an extra-marital affair.
20	* StarMakingRole: This got Stewart Granger noticed in Hollywood.
21	* ThrowItIn: The majority of natives on-screen were locals who were "recruited on the spot".
22	* WagTheDirector: Stewart Granger had the first director Compton Bennett sacked as they couldn't get along and the shooting was going nowhere. The next director Andrew Marton, being a man's man, hit it off instantly with Mr. Granger.
23	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
24	** Creator/ErrolFlynn was originally cast as Alan Quatermain, but turned it down, as he did not desire to sleep in a tent on location in Africa. Instead he did ''Kim'' (1950), which was filmed in India, but the accommodations for the actors were at a local resort.
25	** Audiences at the initial screenings [[{{Narm}} laughed their heads off]] at the scene in which Elizabeth Curtis (a Victorian ProperLady) cuts her long hair off and it then cuts to her with a perfectly coiffed 1950s hairdo. Producers considered removing the scenes because of it, but couldn't find another way to explain Elizabeth's change of hairstyle.
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27	!!''King Solomon's Mines'' (1985 film, plus the 1987 sequel ''Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold'')
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29	* CastIncest: In the sequel, Alan Quatermain's brother is played by Creator/RichardChamberlain's romantic partner.
30	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/SharonStone called the film "a bad hairdo running through the jungle" and had such a horrible time filming that she did ''Film/PoliceAcademy4CitizensOnPatrol'' just to have some fun.
31	* FakeNationality:
32	** Creator/JohnRhysDavies (Welsh) plays a Turk and Creator/HerbertLom (Hungarian) plays a German.
33	** In the sequel, Americans Creator/JamesEarlJones and Robert Donner as, respectively, a Zulu warrior and an Indian (or maybe Arab) mystic.
34	* FollowTheLeader: Of the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' franchise.
35	* FranchiseKiller: Creator/TheCannonGroup had originally planned a trilogy of films, the third film was to be an adaptation of ''She and Allan'' but this was ultimately abandoned after the extreme negative reception of ''Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold'', coupled with the financial difficulties of the company at the time.
36	* NoBudget: Creator/RichardChamberlain recalled being told that the budget was about $10 million. He joked that it was more like $3.75.
37	* TroubledProduction: Both films were shot concurrently in 1985; filming took six months and was torturous. Creator/SharonStone proved so difficult to work with -- as her marriage was falling apart at the time -- that the rest of the crew played mean pranks on her. The budgets were very low (Cassandra Peterson, aka Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark, had no stunt double for her character's demise in the second film) and the filmmakers were even worried that the shoot was cursed.
38	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
39	** Creator/SharonStone was cast by mistake. Menahem Golan said "I want that Stone woman" - meaning Creator/KathleenTurner, who had starred in ''Film/RomancingTheStone''.
40	** Creator/JohnHurt turned down the role of Allan Quatermain.
41	** In 2011, a new sequel was proposed by Menahem Golan called ''Allan Quatermain and the Jewel of the East''. The script was written by Menahem Golan and Richard Albiston, to be directed by Golan himself. The plot concerned Quatermain attempting to rescue his daughter from Chinese treasure hunters in the Congo. According to the 2015 documentary ''Golan: A Farewell to Mr. Cinema'', Creator/RichardChamberlain had agreed to return as the title character, but Golan died before the film began shooting.

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