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A throwback to the bad old days
Once upon a time somebody released a movie called Raiders of the Lost Ark, which did very well at the box office. There was a scramble to cash in on its success, and so, some Hollywood types decided to re-make Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines with Richard Chamberlain and the relatively unknow Sharon Stone. It wasn't a bad movie, but it was no masterpiece either. As the making of the movie progressed, Miss Stone's garments kept shrinking in the wash. The makers, realising that this might save the box office receipts decided to accelerate the trend, and, halfway through one scene her Bombay bloomers miraculously transformed themselves in to hot pants. <
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>Subseqently, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was released and was a hit, to they released a sequel to King Solomon's Mines called Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold, with the same cast as before, to cash in again. <
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>Now you know that any movie with Lost City of Gold in the title is going to be a stinker, but will be saved by the continuing shrinking of Miss Stone's garments and the presence of bikini clad Amazons. Unfortunately, two things went wrong. One, Miss Stone's contract had a fully clothed clause in it and she remains overclad. Two, they sent the bloke who does the flower arrangements out to hire the bikini clad Amazons and he returned with a lot of his similarly inclined male friends clad in white pajamas instead. Result: insufficient crumpet! <
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>They borrowed certain elements from Temple of Doom. Sharon Stone screams more than Kate Capshaw. There is a roller coaster ride through underground caverns, this time in a canoe instead of a mine cart. There are hapless native slaves in a mine and a lava pit for the sacrifices. <
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>Otherwise the movie is a throwback to an earlier era of B movie making. In those old jungle movies, the blacks were in it to: <
>a. Shout menacingly and throw spears, <
>b. Provide the corpses, and. <
>c. Provide the comedy relief, unless there was a monkey called Cheeta. <
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>a. blacks who shout and throw spears, <
>b. five Ashari warriors who play the part of the five green bottles sitting on a wall (Somebody actually says: "Oh, look! We've lost another Ashari."), and, <
>c. there is James Earle Jones providing the unintended comedy relief, in what is easily the worst performance of his otherwise distinguished career. Tarzan isn't in this one so somebody has to substitute for the monkey and James got picked. <
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>There is also a beautiful princess. She is a goodie, so she is blonde. She has an evil sister, who is, naturally, brunette. So is the evil, if somewhat unkempt, high priest. In old westerns you could tell who the goodies and the badies were by the colour of their hats, but this isn't a western, so we have to rely on hair colour. There are no injuns either, so the blacks attack the fort. Oops, I mean lost city. <
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>Much of the middle of the movie ended on the cutting room floor to keep it short, so the climactic bit doesn't make much sense, but don't worry, you can watch the trailer and see the missing bits. In fact, if you don't watch the trailer you won't see Dicky Chamberlain rescue the slaves or understand why the fort (sorry, city) is attacked. <
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>In summary, this is a rather old fashioned jungle B movie. It's not terribly good, but if you are supposed to be mowing the lawn, and it is raining, this will get you out of the housework and give you a laugh or two. Some of the laughs will even be intentional.

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Quality and Personal satisfaction of DVD (Allan Quatermain and the lost City of gold)
Allan Quatermain and the lost city of gold DVD is of the highest quality and i am completely satisfied with <
>the product and i recommend it without reservation! <
>-M.E.

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They actually put this on DVD?
Considering the many great films that have not made it on to DVD yet, that this boring and mind melting nonsense has made it is beyond belief. <
>Winner of the most boring historical "action-adventure" film set in Africa award, with Sharon Stone taking the honors for worst actress is said category. <
>The Kings Solomons Mines film is actually pretty good, the equal to the Indiana Jones films. <
>Since I love the genre, and since I liked the first film, this may be most horrific sequel I have ever had the painful displeasure to witness.