King Solomon's Treasure is a 1979 British-Canadian low-budget film based on the novels King Solomon's Mines (1885) and Allan Quatermain (1887) by H. Rider Haggard. It stars John Colicos as Allan Quatermain, as well as David McCallum, Britt Ekland, and Patrick Macnee who replaced Terry-Thomas.
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Cast
David McCallum as Sir Henry Curtis
John Colicos as Allan Quatermain
Patrick Macnee as Captain John Good R.N.
Britt Ekland as Queen Nyleptha
Yvon Dufour as Alphonse
Ken Gampu as Umslopogaas
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Oldest Club Member
John Quentin as Stetopatris
Véronique Béliveau as Neva
Sam Williams as High Priest
Hugh Rouse as Reverend MacKenzie
Fiona Fraser as Mrs. Mackenzie
Camilla Hutton as Flossie
John Boylan as Club member
Ian De Voy as Club member
Production
McCallum later said he did the film "because I got to go to Swaziland... the movie is something you'll have to see on a plane or on late night television."
Reception
TV Guide had this to say about the film: "The cast of seasoned veterans (McCallum, Macnee, Ekland) contribute embarrassingly bad performances. Surprisingly, though, the photography—the film is shot on location in Africa as well as in London and Canadian studios—is not bad at all."
A 1979 article said the film "never saw the light of day".