Some how I missed this one back in 1985. It's a fun, lightweight African adventure story featuring Richard Chamberlain as Allan Quatermain, intrepid great white hunter, and Sharon Stone, American beauty searching for a father lost in darkest Africa. Also has John Rhys-Davies as villainous Turkish war lord. A lot of scenes put one in mind of/were ripped off from, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Lots of action, including funny scenes of African cannibals popping the lead characters into a giant cooking pot filled with water and sliced vegetables.
The title of the movie comes from an old H. Rider Haggard adventure story, published a hundred years ago. It was a best seller back then, it's been mentioned repeatedly in other fiction stories, but I have never read the book. I suspect the movie takes little from the novel other than the title and the names of the characters. There were older movies of this title, one from 1937 and one from 1950.
All in all, an enjoyable flick. Lightweight but fun.
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