Revealing mistake: Having been deserted by their porters three white people and a native journey on. During their journey an antelope is shot by Allan Quartermain for food. The sound of the shot is dubbed in as there is no recoil from the high powered rifle he uses.
King Solomon's Mines (1950)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Andrew Marton, Compton Bennett
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson, Stewart Granger, Hugo Haas
Continuity mistake: When Allen Quatermain and his friends find the white man in the village, he says he hasn't seen a white man for five years. When Allen asks him about Elizabeth Curtis' husband, he says that he saw him one year ago. Note: The husband is a white man.
Allan Quatermain: ...in the end you begin to accept it all... you watch things hunting and being hunted, reproducing, killing and dying, it's all endless and pointless, except in the end one small pattern emerges from it all, the only certainty: one is born, one lives for a time then one dies, that is all.
Question: Umbopa's people wear colorful, patterned clothes, use metal weapons and bells. Yet there is no evidence of cotton fields, weaving equipment, mines or forges. Where did they get/make these items?
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Answer: It's possible all these goods were traded for. Realistically, everything came from the MGM costume and prop department. Movies from this era seldom strove for historical or cultural accuracy. Native costumes and other possessions were often the embellished invention of imaginative costume and set designers, with little thought or regard to authenticity. The intent was to produce an exciting, colorful, entertaining movie.
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