I suspect that this is one of those films which isn't very faithful to the original novel.
Possible spoiler: There are some British soldiers and some German soldiers dotted about the place, which just seem like a half-hearted attempt to update the well-known tale of King Solomon's Mines - which is what this really is, down to the hairstyles of the mysterious natives familiar from the Granger/Kerr version.
Taylor and Heywood creak through the motions with all the verve of wombats, intercut with stock footage of herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains - clumsily enough to remind one of the great Edward D Wood.
Well worth missing.
Possible spoiler: There are some British soldiers and some German soldiers dotted about the place, which just seem like a half-hearted attempt to update the well-known tale of King Solomon's Mines - which is what this really is, down to the hairstyles of the mysterious natives familiar from the Granger/Kerr version.
Taylor and Heywood creak through the motions with all the verve of wombats, intercut with stock footage of herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains - clumsily enough to remind one of the great Edward D Wood.
Well worth missing.