Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Quartermain Collection
Watusi
Guardians of King Solomon's Mines!
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.
- Original title
- Watusi
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $485,000
- Revenue
- $1,545,000
CinemaSerf
Nov 11, 2023 · via TMDB
This is pretty much a straight "reimagining" of H. Rider Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" story. This time, though, it's the son of the famous "Quartermain" dynasty "Henry" (George Montgomery) who alights on the sleepy African village where his father's friend "Rick" (David Farrar) is nursing his beer. He wants to go back to the mines and help himself to some precious gems. Replete with supplies and their native factotum "Jim-Jim" (Robert Goodwin) they set off on their perilous trek. What's missing thus far is soon found as they travel - in the guise of German traveller "Erica" (Taina Elg doing her best Deborah Kerr impression) and now we are good to go with a standard adventure featuring crocodiles, snakes, restless natives, a few very useful worms and some beautiful (and occasionally shockingly graphic) archive photography. The denouement, indeed the last half hour of this all goes remarkably smoothly and is really rather disappointing. Extra points if you can spot Rex Ingram as it meanders along slowly but determinedly and though it's all entirely derivative and has about as much action as an edition of "Daktari", it's still a watchable film that plays to just about every colonial stereotype and is very much of it's time.
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George Montgomery
Harry Quartermain
Taina Elg
Erica Neuler
David Farrar
Rick Cobb
Robert Goodwin
Jim-Jim
Rex Ingram
Umbopa
Martin Wilkins
Wounded Native (uncredited)
Sydney Guilaroff
Hairstylist
William Tuttle
Makeup Artist
Kurt Neumann
Director
James Clavell
Writer
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Mar 25, 1959
