King Solomon's Mines (1937)
1937 · Feature film · 80 min · dir. Robert Stevenson
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
Synopsis
King Solomon's Mines is a 1937 British adventure film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, John Loder and Roland Young. A film adaptation of the 1885 novel of the same name by Henry Rider Haggard, the film was produced by the Gaumont British Picture Corporation at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. Sets were designed by art director Alfred Junge. Of all the novel's adaptations, this film is considered to be the most faithful to the book.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Robert Stevenson
- Writer
- H. Rider Haggard
- Cinematography
- Glen MacWilliams
- Studio
- Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
- Released
- 1937-06-17
- Running time
- 80 minutes
Cast & crew
Robert Stevenson Director
Paul Robeson
Cedric Hardwicke
Anna Lee
Roland Young
John Loder
Frederick Leister
Robert Adams- Tony Wane
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · A Classic · Thrgfr · 2020-04-05
When Paul Robeson enters a scene, all the other actors look like pygmies. When Robeson speaks, all the other actors sound like Donald Duck. This is better than the later remake.
