To me, this movie is perfection.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

. . . did not start in the 21st Century. KING SOLOMON'S MINES, a 1950 flick, documents that the Watusi Clique was resolving such disputes at least as early as the 1800s through their gyrations on the dance floor. While the two contestants making up the final pairing here may be wielding some sort of flimsy ceremonial "spears" not unlike the artifacts used during the Olympic "sport" of rhythmic gymnastics, the only implied scoring move apparently came out so lame in every "take" that it was cut from the final print of this film for being too trivial of a detail to include. Overall, the choreography of KING SOLOMON'S MINES leaves a lot of room for improvement. Featuring repetitious drumming, drab and hot-looking bulky costumes, as well as stiff almost geriatric "moves," these period movers and shakers would not make it out of the preliminary round of any present-day competition. However, since KING SOLOMON'S MINES also features the very real-looking extermination of many of Today's endangered or extinct critters of Africa (where this flick was shot), it's liable to hold a lot of historical interest for Wildlife lovers.

If you have seen the Indiana Jones films and expect rip roaring adventures then steer clear.Stewart Granger is in his element as a rather world weary game hunter who is offered a shed load of money from Deborah Kerr who wants to find her missing husband who went looking for treasure and has never returned.Although boasting extensive location footage that takes in the jungle, Savannah, desert and mountains not a lot happens but a lot of trekking some encounters with shifty white men, some shifty tribes and the usual wild animal and reptile escapades.There is a budding romantic subtext and maybe for the first time we see some authentic tribal music and dancing in a western mainstream film, although the choreography and editing of the final fight looks strange, as if the stunt coordinator seemed clueless as to stage manage a tribal fight scene.The film is credited with two directors because Granger fell out with the first one, but it certainly lacks action.

Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr are a good looking couple but she is a little cast against type ,being too cerebral,too intellectual to play this simplistic part .She ,however ,tries,to give her character substance,with her nightmares and when she talks about her husband .Granger and Kerr,as actors,would do ,IMHO,a much better job in 'the prisoner of Zenda" .The real star of the movie is Africa and the fact that the interest is sustained without a villain (or almost:the one baddie's presence do not exceed 10 minutes)makes "King Solomon's mines a good adventures movie.Predating the superior Cornell Wilde's "naked prey" ,the directors do not show the conventional country:they show all that fights and struggles for life .The action stops to allow Granger to give his companions a true mini-lecture on wildlife .

While it could have done with more characterisation, King Solomon's Mines is a lively and beautifully photographed film. The cinematography and scenery is fabulous and the editing is crisp and Mischa Spolainsky's score is rousing and beautiful. The film goes along at a good pace, has a good script and has an engaging story full of animal action, frenzied tribesmen and sentimental love scenes. The direction from Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton is strong, while Stewart Granger is very likable and the lovely Deborah Kerr is watchable as she always was. In conclusion, a very good film worth seeing for the leads and the visuals. 8/10 Bethany Cox