King Solomon's Mines (1937 Film)
King Solomon's Mines is a 1937 adventure film, the first film adaptation of the 1885 novel by the same name by Henry Rider Haggard. It starred Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, John Loder and Roland Young. The film was produced by the Gaumont British Picture Corporation and directed by Robert Stevenson.
The film follows the original novel faithfully, except for the addition of a white female lead (the novel had an interracial romance subplot) and some musical interludes deliberately added to give Paul Robeson a chance to sing. In contrast to later adaptations, it depicts Allan Quatermain as a professorial type uninterested in romance, as in the book.
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