[BipolarBob]

I’ve seen different movie versions of this. I like them all in different ways.

[caddie]

Herbert Lom = Chief Inspector Dreyfus. LOL.

[Red Badger]

It was written at the same time as Huckleberry Finn, so it reflects the times it was set in..................

[ComputerGuy]

Kipling, Haggard and Doyle were my favorite authors as a boy.

[spankalib]

Haggard, of course, was also influential on generations of writers who followed him, including Ian Fleming, John Buchan and his creation Richard Hannay, and Graham Greene, who rated King Solomon’s Mines ‘a good deal higher than Treasure Island’.

I'd bet the farm that one other writer he influenced was Edgar Rice Burroughs.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Read the book over sixty years ago. Loved it! So I read all his books on Africa. SHE, Miawa’s Revenge, King Solomon’s Mines and Allan Quarterman. Also saw all the movies from the 1930s to the 1980s.
I prefer the 1930s and 1950s versions of the movies. Lots of other movies were made using stock footage from them. WATUSI comes to mind.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting this, Borges! I just downloaded the audio book to my Amazon Audible account on my iPhone. This looks like great listening on hikes, walks, car trips and plane rides (lots of them coming up soon!)

My eyesight is failing and it’s become very hard to read print books (so much for the big library I amassed to read in retirement 😢. Thank goodness for computers where I can make the print big! So audible books are a Godsend.

[chajin]

The Stewart Granger movie takes the novel and makes it more historically accurate, in the sense of who the “natives” in different places actually would have been and would have acted.

[redfreedom]

I’ve watched three versions. This one, a 1937 black and white version, and a 1950 version with Stewart Granger.

Steward Granger’s is by far the best. Granger’s is seemingly also the premium version, meaning in some streaming services it’s a pay per view.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Read the book. Saw the movie(s)

Also read “She: A History of Adventure”. And saw both movies.

[BenLurkin]

Read it when quite young. Isn’t this the one where the old woman gets crushed beneath a stone portcullis?

[Bigg Red]

FTA: A second charge against the book is that of misogyny. ‘I can safely say that there is not a petticoat in the whole history,’ the narrator, elephant hunter Allan Quatermain, tells us proudly near the start. The story itself is dedicated to ‘to all the big and little boys who read it’, which is the sort of thing that might possibly offend some sentiment today....

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So stupid. How can the absence of female characters be consideredmysogynistic? Good grief!

Let the boys have a nice tail of adventure not messed up by distracting women.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I liked She better, but still loved King Solomon’s Mines. I need to dig both of them out and reread them.