H. Rider HaggardFilmography

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Caamora: She

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Alan Reed, Christina Booth, John Jowitt, Mark Westwood, Richard West

Synopsis: This stage production, conceived of and written by musician Clive Nolan, adapts H. Rider Haggard's 19th century novel She. Among the artists who assist Nolan in his vision are Alan Reed, Christina Booth, Mark Westwood, and Scott Higham. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Sean Cameron Michael, Christopher Adamson

Synopsis: H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel King Solomon's Mines gets retold for a new generation of cliff-hanger fans in this film that finds titular hero Allan Quartermain setting out in search of the most valuable treasure known to man. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
King Solomon's Mines

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Alison Doody, Gavin Hood, Roy Marsden, Ian Roberts

Synopsis: This four-hour cable miniseries adaptation of H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel King Solomon's Mines dispenses with much of the original story in favor of a standard Indiana Jones-esque melodrama, complete with claim-jumping villains, snarling Russian soldiers, an ancient and deadly Read More

2004
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Henry Silva, Robert Donner

Synopsis: After receiving a mysterious gold piece, Quatermain travels to Africa to find his brother, who is searching for a lost white tribe. In his search, Quatermain discovers a lost civilization. This film is a follow-up to King Solomon's Mines. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1/30/87
King Solomon's Mines

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: H. Rider Haggard's popular adventure novel King Solomon's Mines has been translated to the big screen on several occasions. Tom Burlinson and Arthur Dignam contribute their vocal talents to this 1986 animated version of the venerable tale of hunting treasure and lost explorers in darkest Africa. Read More

1986
King Solomon's Mines

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu

Synopsis: The action in this routine adventure film would be modeled on the enormously successful Indiana Jones but it is too much, too fast, too deja vu. It all starts when Jessie Huston (Sharon Stone, before stardom) talks adventurer Allen Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) into helping her find her father Read More

1985
She

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Sandahl Bergman, David Goss, Quin Kessler, Harrison Muller, Elena Wiedermann

Synopsis: This undistinguished sci-fi fantasy is set in a post-holocaust world where "She" (Sandahl Bergman) rules over one of several different tribes with weird and supernatural abilities. Some tribesmen are like lizards, they can grow back a limb after it is cut off -- or just a whole other clone of Read More

1984
King Solomon's Treasure

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: With only an ancient medallion to guide him, a British explorer launches an adventure-packed expedition to a mysterious lost Phoenician city in the heart of Africa were Solomon's fabulous treasure is said to be hidden in this low-budget Canadian fantasy-adventure. During the dangerous journey, the Read More

1976
The Vengeance of She

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Richardson, Olinka Berova, Edward Judd, Colin Blakely, Jill Melford

Synopsis: Killikrates (John Richardson) is the ruler of the city of Kuma, an idyllic civilization seemingly frozen in another time. In a religious ceremony, he waits for his Queen Ayesha (Olinka Berova) to return and be immortalized by a fiery ritual. The High Priest has other ideas and plants a look-alike Read More

1968
She

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Christopher Lee, Rosenda Monteros

Synopsis: Hammer Films co-produced this lavishly mounted adventure, the fourth adaptation of the novel by H. Rider Haggard. In Jerusalem, Leo Vincey (John Richardson) meets with a slave girl, Ustane (Rosenda Monteros), who has been charged with bringing him to an immortal queen, Ayesha (Ursula Andress). Read More

1965
Watusi

Crew: Book Author

Actors: George Montgomery, Taina Elg, David Farrar, Rex Ingram, Dan Seymour

Synopsis: This flawed sequel uses footage that was cut from its precursor, King Solomon's Mines, along with repeats of a few scenes from that film, to construct a story about a return to Africa to look for the fabled mines. Harry Quartermain (George Montgomery) is the son of the man who first set out on the Read More

1959
King Solomon's Mines

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, Lowell Gilmore

Synopsis: MGM's expensive remake of the 1937 British adventure film King Solomon's Mines stars Stewart Granger as fearless-explorer Alan Quartermaine, and Deborah Kerr as the spunky Irish lass who hires him on to locate her husband. Kerr's spouse has disappeared somewhere in Africa while attempting to Read More

1950
King Solomon's Mines

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, John Loder, Anna Lee

Synopsis: The first of three talkie versions of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel King Solomon's Mine was produced by British Gaumont. While Cedric Hardwicke plays the nominal leading role of explorer Alan Quartermaine, top billing goes to African-American singing-star Paul Robeson, who plays dauntless Read More

1937
She

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis: Randolph Scott, whom Cooper borrowed from Paramount, plays Leo Vincey, an explorer searching for the "flame of life," a radioactive element hidden in the Arctic parts of Manchuria which, according to Vincey family lore, can bestow eternal life. Setting out on the fearful journey along with British Read More

1935
She

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Betty Blythe

Synopsis: Previously filmed no fewer than six times, H. Rider Haggard's fantasy adventure She was committed to celluloid a seventh time in 1925. The story begins as three intrepid explorers venture into the heart of Libya in hopes of finding the fabled "Pillar of Fire," which, legend has it, provides Read More

1925
Die Sklavenkoenigin

Crew: Book Author

Actors: María Corda, Adelqui Millar, Arlette Marchal, Oscar Beregi, Sr.

Synopsis: Filmed in Germany in 1924, Michael Curtiz' Die Slavenkoenigen was intended for an American release that same year, under the title Moon of Israel. That release was suppressed by Cecil B. DeMille, who worried that his own The Ten Commandments would be compared unfavorably to the German film (By the Read More

1924
She

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Valeska Suratt

Synopsis: She, H. Rider Haggard's fanciful novel about the immortal queen of a lost tribe, has been filmed ten times to date, with seven versions emerging between the years 1910 and 1930. Fox's 1917 adaptation of She would have been ideally suited to the talents of the studio's foremost "vamp," Theda Bara. Read More

1917
She

Crew: Book Author

1911