I dont watch much TV but "she who must be obeyed' had a satellite system put in and I saw that the Hallmark Channel was running a version of King Solomon's Mines, which was a favourite story when I was a lad.

I should have been forwarned when they cast Patrick Swayze as Quatremaine. It was truly appalling!

One minute the man is shooting at great distances and hitting charging elephants and the next when he is shooting as some Russians who are after the map, yes Russians, can't remember that in the book, he cannot hit them.

After walking across a desert, falling down holes and fighting off the Russians and then a few tribesman all look wonderfully clean and shaven. I am still curious as to where they got all the ammo from, never seemed to run out.

As for the the tribesman their speech seemed to vary bewteen Hollywood inspired native grunting and then suddenly they spoke with a Harlem accent.

Worst thing was I watched both parts just to see if it got worse. And it did.