Re: King Solomon's Mines

Posted by Michaelson from em12-686.utsi.edu on August 10, 1999 at 09:17:49:

In Reply to: Re: King Solomon's Mines posted by Nick Kismet on August 10, 1999 at 09:13:01:

: : You're a bit off in your dating. The book upon which the movie was based was published in 1885. Therefore, it cannot be a spoof of Indiana Jones.

: Oh come on. The title, main character's name and treasure may be based on the H. Rider Haggard novel of 1885, but saying that the Richard Chamberlain movie is based on that novel is like saying that Raiders of the Lost Ark is based on the Bible. It is an unashamed rip-off of the Indiana Jones movies, complete with German bad guys (no German's in the novel) and airplanes (in 1885? maybe at Kitty Hawk)

At the time they came out, Richard Chamberlin was interviewed on Entertainment Tonight, and flatly admitted that they were indeed pulling ideas directly from the two Indy movies. He said that they were just adventure "romps", as he termed it, that were summer movie fillers. Like I said in my other post, they didn't take either one seriously themselves, and the interesting thing was that Sallah played a bad guy in one of them, and enjoyed himself throughly. Regards. Michaelson

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: : : You're a bit off in your dating. The book upon which the movie was based was published in <b>1885</b>. Therefore, it cannot be a spoof of Indiana Jones.

: : Oh come on.  The title, main character's name and treasure may be based on the H. Rider Haggard novel of 1885, but saying that the Richard Chamberlain movie is based on that novel is like saying that Raiders of the Lost Ark is based on the Bible.  It is an unashamed rip-off of the Indiana Jones movies, complete with German bad guys (no German's in the novel) and airplanes (in 1885?  maybe at Kitty Hawk)

: At the time they came out, Richard Chamberlin was interviewed on Entertainment Tonight, and flatly admitted that they were indeed pulling ideas directly from the two Indy movies. He said that they were just adventure "romps", as he termed it, that were summer movie fillers. Like I said in my other post, they didn't take either one seriously themselves, and the interesting thing was that Sallah played a bad guy in one of them, and enjoyed himself throughly. Regards. Michaelson

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