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Synopsis: Guide Allan Quatermain helps a young lady (Beth) find her lost husband somewhere in Africa. It's a spectacular adventure story with romance, because while they fight with wild animals and cannibals, they fall in love. Will they find the lost husband and finish the nice connection?
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PASSED
Year:
1950
103 min
451 Views


- But I can guess.

- Allan knows the country...

...better than anyone else, you see.

- But that's exactly why we want him.

That, and because I can see

you'd be fair and honest with us.

Well, thank you, but...

I'm sorry I can't undertake it.

My advice is to take your sister

back to England...

...and both of you pray that eventually

her husband turns up.

It's nice to have met you.

- Bye, Eric.

- Bye, Allan.

Sorry I couldn't have been

more help to you.

Mrs. Curtis, I believe.

Won't you come in?

Oh, excuse me.

Now, this is Lulu.

- Lulu, this is Mrs. Curtis.

- Oh, she's enchanting. She's a charmer.

She knows it. And she makes use of it.

Lulu and I enjoy having visitors,

but I ought to warn you...

...you've come on a hopeless errand.

- My brother told me your reasons.

- There's one argument he neglected to use.

- Oh, what was that?

Money.

That's a very good argument.

I'm willing to pay anything.

- Beyond reason, of course.

- Why are you so determined?

I understand planning before you knew its

dangers, but your brother must've told you.

Are you sure you aren't

exaggerating the dangers?

With proper equipment and your services,

we should manage.

- I'm not afraid.

- Your courage does you no credit.

It's the result of ignorance.

What is your usual fee

for a safari, Mr. Quatermain?

Two hundred pounds and all expenses.

I wouldn't undertake this one for 500.

Would you for 5000?

- That's a great deal of money.

- I mean it.

More than I could save in a lifetime.

- Would you pay, win or lose?

- Of course.

Even if you back out...

...before we've gone a tenth of the way?

- Yes.

- You expect me to back out, don't you?

- Frankly, yes.

I'll pay the 5000 in advance and a bonus of

500 at the end, whether I back out or not.

You're weakening, aren't you?

You half-decided to go.

Oh, I've fully decided to go.

And my reasons are entirely mercenary.

Nobody's been in the region

beyond the Kaluanas before...

...but I'm willing to try

for cold, hard cash.

Apparently you're not certain after all

that we'd never return.

- I'm just as certain as ever.

- And yet you'd go?

Mrs. Curtis, the average life of a man in

my profession is approximately eight years.

Now, I've been at it for 15.

So you see I'm living on borrowed time.

My wife died here six years ago.

Sooner or later, an animal or an unfriendly

native or a tropical disease will get me.

I have a son in England...

...but there'll be very little money

for him if anything should happen to me.

The money you're offering would provide

for him until he can take care of himself.

- I see.

- So I'll take on your safari.

But before we leave, I'd like to send

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Helen Deutsch

Helen Deutsch (21 March 1906 – 15 March 1992) was an American screenwriter, journalist and songwriter. Deutsch was born in New York City and graduated from Barnard College. She began her career by managing the Provincetown Players. She then wrote theatre reviews for the New York Herald-Tribune and the New York Times as well as working in the press department of the Theatre Guild. Her first screenplay was for The Seventh Cross (1944). She adapted Enid Bagnold's novel, National Velvet into a screenplay which became a famous film (1944) starring Elizabeth Taylor. After writing a few films (Golden Earrings (1947), The Loves of Carmen (1948) and Shockproof (1949) ) for Paramount and Columbia Pictures, she spent the greater part of her career working for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and wrote the screenplays for such films as King Solomon's Mines (1950), Kim (1950), It's a Big Country (1951), Plymouth Adventure (1952), Lili (1953), Flame and the Flesh (1954), The Glass Slipper (1955), I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955), Forever, Darling (1956) and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). Her last screenplay was for 20th Century Fox's Valley of the Dolls (1967). more…

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