Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
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| Directed by |
Gary Nelson Newt Arnold |
| Produced by |
Yoram Globus Menahem Golan |
| Screenplay by |
Gene Quintano Lee Reynolds |
| Based on |
Allan Quatermain 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard |
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| Music by | Michael Linn |
| Cinematography |
Frederick Elmes Alex Phillips |
| Edited by |
Gary Griffen Alain Jakubowicz Dan Loewenthal |
| Distributed by | Cannon Film Distributors |
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99 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.8 million (USA) (sub-total) |
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is an adventure comedy film directed by Gary Nelson, co-directed by Newt Arnold and released on December 18, 1986 in West Germany and on January 30, 1987 in the United States. It is loosely based on the novel Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard. It is the sequel to King Solomon's Mines.
The role of Allan Quatermain is reprised by Richard Chamberlain as is that of Jesse Huston by Sharon Stone, who was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for this role, for which she lost to Madonna for Who's That Girl. The movie also starred James Earl Jones as Umslopogaas, Henry Silva as Agon, Aileen Marson as Queen Nyleptha, Cassandra Peterson as Queen Sorais and Chamberlain's then real-life partner Martin Rabbett as Robeson Quatermain.
The film was made simultaneously with its predecessor, King Solomon's Mines, although it was released a couple of years later. Despite the tremendous liberties both movies took with the source material, being more similar in tone to the Indiana Jones film series, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold was loosely based, mostly, on the book sequel of Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, entitled simply Allan Quatermain. In that book, which depicts Quatermain's last adventure (although it's just the second in the series of novels), the character and his associates go searching for a lost white tribe in Africa, and end up involved in a war between the rival queens of the kingdom. An opulent set was constructed for the movie just outside Victoria Falls.
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