Terrible! The 1950 version feels like a masterpiece when set beside this 1937 screen version of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel "King Solomon's Mines". This alternates between the studio and actual African locations. The studio stuff is credited to Robert Stevenson while Geoffrey Barkas did the location work and the lack-lustre cast features Cedric Hardwicke, whose 'greatness' as an actor I've never been able to figure out, as Allan Quartermain. Roland Young, John Loder, Anna Lee, (dreadful), and Paul Robeson who gets top billing, (as Umbopa), as well as a song or two or three, (it wouldn't be a proper Paul Robeson picture without a few songs). It's probably no more offensive than other films of the period but it still leaves a pretty bad taste in the mouth. No-one's finest hour.
Review of King Solomon's Mines
