The one with Stewart Granger was reasonable...although pale compared to Haggard's magnificent book. At least Stewart Granger made a fairly respectable Alan Quatremain.

That recent movie with Patrick Swayze was one of the worst movies I've EVER seen! It deserves about 1 out of 10.

The original stories by H. Ryder Haggard are so utterly superb, and would make such incredible wide-screen adventure movies if done faithfully, that one has to wonder why the movie industry has never had the imagination to attempt it. They can do Lord of the Rings seriously, so why can't they do King Solomon's Mines???

They obviously feel that the public are a bunch of shambling morons, incapable of appreciating a real story with depth and authenticity...and by providing the public with a steady diet of superficial tripe most of the time they are turning that assumption into a self-fulfilling prophecy.