Allan Quatermain (Chamberlain from the 1960's series, Dr. Kildare) has been hired by Jesse Huston (Sharon Stone, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Casino) to find her missing father. As Quatermain and Jesse, along with Quatermain's local friend, Umbopo (Ken Gampu), follow her father's trail, they learn that he has been captured by a German colonel, Bockner (Herbert Lom, of Spartacus and the original Pink Panther series fame), and his partner-in-crime, Dogati (John Rhys-Davies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Sliders), a Turkish slave-trader.
It seems that Jesse's father has a map to the fabled King Solomon's Mines, and it's an all out race between Quatermain's group and the forces that are led by Bockner and Dogati. They will travel across a wide variety of the country's landscape and have many escapades on train, plane, and swinging-upside down aboriginals (seriously) all the while following the strange map to the guarded caves filled with uncut diamonds and mystical forces.
It should be noted that King Solomon's Mines is a much campier interpretation of the classic Henry Rider Haggard story than some of the other versions that have come out over the years. Couple that campy style with some heavy Indiana Jones influences, and you might get an idea of what to expect. Whatever you do, don't go into this film expecting high quality action-adventure though. Instead, look for something akin to the badly-animated knock-off movies that happen to share the same name as Disney animated films. While it's still a somewhat fun movie, it's pretty lacking in overall quality. Then again, if you are looking for a bad movie to watch and poke fun at, then King Solomon's Mines might fit the bill, just know what you are getting into before buying this movie. While it doesn't appear that King Solomon's Mines was remastered when it was transferred to Blu-ray and therefore, it does show it's age, if you have been looking for this hard to find film to add to your collection, now is the time.
