Hot Picks

- There's No Such Thing as Zombies 2020

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Evilenko 2003

- Welcome 2025

- Catalyst 2025

- #Manhole 2023

- The Haunting of Hollywood 2024

- Delicate Arch 2024

- Dating My Past 2025

- The Family Business 2024

- Into the Gravel Pit 2025

- Thou Shalt Kill 2024

- White Crow 2025

- Enter the Room 2022

- I Feel Fine 2024

- Round the Decay 2025

- The Baby in the Basket 2025

- Feed 2005

- Altered Reality 2024

- My Husband, the Cyborg 2025

- The Company of Thieves 2025

- Do You See Me? 2017

- Good Neighbours 2024

- Bokshi 2025

- Spectrum 2024

- Wrath of Thorn 2025

- Grace Point 2023

- Up Close 2025

- Sunray: Fallen Soldier 2024

- Hemet, or The Landlady Don't Drink Tea 2024

- Werewolf Game 2025

- A Mr. Shelton Adventure: The Case of the Missing Award 2025

- In the Hands of Fate 2025

- Blackwater Lane 2024

- Hunting Daze 2024

- Lizzie Lazarus 2024

- The Twisted Doll 2024

- Dominoes 2025

- Knight Life 2025

- Watch Us Kill 2024

- Death 2024

- The Yorkie Werewolf 2024

- F.L.Y. 2023

- The Damned 2024

- Kuyashii Gonzo: Blood Visions and Chaos Magic 2024

- The Beast Inside 2024

- Street Trash 2024

- Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties - The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story 2024

- Dead Before They Wake 2025

- DinoGator 2024

- Trivial 2024

- Romancing Sydney 2024

- Gouge Away 2023

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Cosmos 2021

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Tarzán en las Minas del Rey Salomón

Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines

Spain 1973
directed by José Luis Merino
starring David Carpenter, Nadiuska, Paul Naschy, Alibe, Sergio Alberti
written by José Luis Merino, Tarzan created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, music by José Luis Navarro

Tarzan

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Doris (Nadiuska) hires guide Stanley (Paul Naschy) to lead her through the African jungle to find her brother Paul and bring him some special equipment for his excavations of King Solomon's Mines. She doesn't know of course that this special equipment is a strongbox full of guns, and that Paul is the captive/loveslave of the Goddess, the leader of a local tribe who wants to use the guns to conquer all other tribes ... and Paul in return hopes that if he gets her the guns she will let him snatch the treasure - or somesuch.

Anyways, to get them through the jungle, Stanley enlists the help of Tarzan (David Carpenter), who agrees to accompany them only if they go unarmed - a rule that Stanley breaks though, and good thing Tarzan doesn't know what's in the strongbox, either. Anyways, Tarzan is more interested in Doris than anything else, so he doesn't care all that much when Stanley kills the bearers when they want to make an escape, or that Stanley is almost eaten alive by a lion, or that Stanley eventually teams up with the Goddess's tribesmen. And eventually he even delivers the strongbox to the Goddess singlehandedly - only there are no guns inside, because Tarzan has swapped boxes.

In the finale, all the baddies die of course, and Tarzan cuts the Goddess's tribe down to size when he calls his friends the lions into their village ... well, and in the end he of course gets the girl.

 

I don't deny for one moment that I'm a fan of jungle adventures, especially those on the low budget side that tell highly unlikely, even slightly absurd stories and don't give a hoot about realism or ethnological accuracy - yup, films just like this one. And yet, Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines is not a movie that necessarily impresses me, mainly because it lacks the sense of wonder so essential especially to bargain-priced genre entries. Basically, the film is just a by-the-numbers Tarzan-movie, a bit too obviously filmed in a local safari park, with the jungle footage a bit too obviously spliced in that especially fails when it comes to exploiting the wilder parts of the story (like the Goddess's secret lair or her sexual desires) while putting too much emphasis on just more of the usual. And while Nadiuska at least has enough sex appeal to carry her role (even if she looks much too glamourous for a jungle adventurer throughout), David Carpenter as Tarzan is nothing short of bland. Paul Naschy at least is ok, but his role is too straight-forward to develop any life of its own.

All that said, I'm sure fans of 1970's trash, low budget Tarzan and of course Paul Naschy and Nadiuska will all want to see this film, and to be fair it honestly isn't a total trainwreck - it's just a rather forgettable jungle adventure that has nothing really going for it!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!