King Solomon's Mines (1937) - full transcript

[Quartermain]
King Solomon's mines...

Like many others, well...

I didn't believe in them.

In those days, Africa was a
land of many romantic legends.

It had a vast,
unexplored interior.

I was a hunter and it wasn't
until the year 1881

that I learnt that the mines
were a stark reality.

I say "were" because they now lie buried
under a million tons of ashes and lava.

At the time I'm speaking of,
diamonds had been found in Kimberley.

Many adventurous spirits
from all parts of the world...

You've struck lucky again, red.



Yes.

You can count your
money tomorrow.

I'll have 5 pounds on
account to get drunk with.

[Laughing]

Get your backs to the wall,
the whole boiling lot of you.

Don't shoot, boys.
It isn't a hold-up.

I'm just tending myself and
the treasures of Arabia.

Cast an eye over that, me boy,
and see what you make of it.

What have you found?

A house,
carriage and pair for me daughter

and the life of Riley
hereafter and evermore.

Did you ever see the like?

A nice piece of
crystal, O’Brien,

but no diamond.



You don't mean it?

I'm sorry, miss Kate.

That's bad luck,
Patrick, bad luck.

Bad luck nothing.
I was only having a joke with you.

Come on, girl.

[Donkey braying]

Try again, patsy.

Devil I will. I spurn the
diamond fields under me shoes.

If we could only get to the
coast, I could get a job teaching.

And would you like it?

I would not.

[O'Brien] Of course
you wouldn't.

Listen, there was a man in the
bar last night from the Congo.

He says there's
a fortune in ivory.

There's been a fortune
in everything we've tried,

but it wasn't us who found it.

From now on, we'll be decent,
respectable citizens,

and we're going to the coast
before I change me mind.

How much money have we?

Less than a pound and all our
traps are in the pawnshop.

What's that you have?

For you, a gift I bought to
celebrate our magnificent discovery.

A shamrock!

For luck.
It didn't cost a thing.

I know what it cost.

There were two
in mulligan's store.

Here's the other for you.

Kathy, me girl,
there was never anything to beat it.

With a bit of shamrock apiece,
there's nothing on earth can hold us down.

Look!

Glory be to god,
straight from heaven.

Ask him for a lift to the coast.

It's a 5-week journey.
It's a lot to ask.

And you call yourself
an Irishman?

It's a fine morning.

[O'Brien] It's a fine morning.

Is it?

It is.

Are you going to the coast?

No, Kitsfontein.

Well, that's all on the way.

Whose way?

Ours.

We were wondering
if you'd give us a lift.

No.

Me name is Kathleen O'Brien,
and this is me father, Patrick O'Brien,

bachelor of arts,
Trinity college, Dublin.

Thank you.

Bachelor of arts at
Trinity college, Dublin!

A down-and-out
from the diggings, huh?

We're down but we're not out.

[Quartermain] You're out as
far as my wagon's concerned.

Oh! So you don't approve of us?

I don't approve of tearing up the
face of the country for greed.

Me daughter is a good cook.

I have a good cook.

Me father's a wonder to talk.

Yeah, he would be.

[Kathy] And he's a
lovely rifle shot.

Just think of the game
he could get for you.

[Laughter]

What's funny in that?

Quartermain, best
hunter in Africa.

That ends it.

It does not.

Mr. Quartermain,
you needn't take us if you don't want to,

but here's something for you to think
about in your precious solitude:

Me father's own sister
is dying in Kilkenny

and if they never meet
this side of the gates,

'tis you that will
have prevented them.

Jump up.

♪ [Spiritual singing]

How much longer?

Another 10 days.

Look!

[Kathy] Ah, the pretty creature.

You startled her.

Maybe she knows that in 10 days

you'll be after her with
your murdering guns.

I'll get you a knife.

You don't like hunting?

No, I do not.

Neither do I.

Then what do you hunt for?

A living. It pays me
to run hunting trips.

I've got 2 clowns waiting for me now.

There must be a lot
of money in hunting.

I've been thinking over what
that fella said about ivory.

Have you had any experience
in tracking game?

He once took part in a badger
hunt, but the badger escaped.

You don't know what you
can do till you try.

While you're trying,

your poor sister's peacefully
passing away in Kilkenny.

Alan Quartermain, it was a
lie about me father's sister.

I know, I've met
the Irish before.

I'm glad you owned up.

And why shouldn't she?

She's gonna settle
down and teach school.

You're going to settle down?

Of course I am.

I suppose there isn't anything
in the ivory trade is there?

If you ask me, there isn't a
pin to choose between you.

There's a wagon
across the river.

No. Antelope probably.

I'm sure it's a wagon.

Can't be.

And why not?

There's nothing across
that river but devils.

That's what the natives say.

It's unexplored land,
desert probably.

It may be the devil's,
but I can see a wagon.

Come on!

[Shouting]

Take this.

Water, quick!
Whose wagon is this?

He's not able to talk.

It's the desert.

Inside.

[Man whispering]

[Shouting in foreign language]

That's all right,
they're looking after him.

The others ran away in the night
many days ago. The fear was on them.

Sure, the devil.

He fell ill.
We could not reach the north.

Help him back to camp.

I turned back. He does not know.

Let me go on. Out of the way.

You can't go on. You are ill.

Do I care if I am ill?

I don't know where
you're going but...

You want to know where I'm going
but I tell you, you cannot follow.

I crossed the desert. After the
desert, I find king Solomon's mountain.

After the mountain,
I find king Solomon's mines.

Diamonds.

Sylvestra, when
you see me again,

I'll be the richest
man on earth.

So, out of the way!

[Mumbling incoherently]

[Gasping]

Did you hear that?
The mines of king Solomon over the desert.

Is it true?

True, we have
heard of the mines.

[Quartermain] Get me some water.

[Speaking Kukuana]

All the jewels of Ophrah and no one
ever discovered where Ophrah was.

That's where it is maybe.

[Quartermain] Kathy!
My medicine chest.

All right.

[Speaking Kukuana]

What's that you have?

A map.

Look, 300 years old.

He said a man went there
and never came back.

Look, the way across the desert

and here, king Solomon's
mountain and the mine.

The jewels of Ophrah,
the greatest treasure in the world!

Now, that map is his.
You had no right to take it.

I know, but if he lives we won't use
it, and if he doesn't,

I'll seek the treasure myself and
I'll have masses said for his soul.

The shamrock! I said
it'd bring us luck.

[Quartermain] Kathy!

I'm coming.

Dig a grave.

[Speaking Kukuana]

♪ [Chanting]

All over?

God rest his soul.

Kathy asleep?

It must be terrible to die alone
in the desert without your folks.

Terrible.

What did you think of the map?

How did you guess?

I know human nature where
treasure's concerned.

Where's the harm? I returned it.

After taking a copy.

Will you be sending
the map to his folks?

And provoke somebody
else to lose his life?

Besides, he has no folks.

Have you looked over it?
Do you think it's genuine?

It's unexplored country.
Nobody knows.

You're looking at a man
who means to know.

You're not gonna
take that girl...

What do you take me for?

I'm her father, not a murderer.
I shall go alone.

In all me life,
I may never get another chance like this.

Of dying?

Of finding an excuse
for having been born.

You'll think me a casual kind of a
Mick, who doesn't care a crust

if I've a shilling in me pocket to
buy a meal for me own flesh and blood,

but it's the way we Irish are,

to take our troubles
with a smile in our teeth

while underneath,
there is deep shame in me heart.

Do you think I don't know what I
owe to that child asleep there?

I do know and here is where I
mean to pay that debt in full.

With your life, huh?

If god wills it, with me life.

How do you propose
to make the journey?

Hasn't Providence
sent me a team of oxen?

And a wagon, and strength and purpose
to carry me to the ends of the earth?

You know, O'Brien,

there's only one kind of man
that is useless to argue with.

And that is?

A fool.

Eh.

[Men speaking Kukuana]

Inkoosi, our wagon, where is it?

I'll take you on. At least you'll
be sure of food and a wage.

Kathy, wake up!

I do not work for money
and you do not go my way.

[Quartermain] Kathy!

All right.

Allan Quartermain,
he's gone after the treasure.

I know.

Without me.

Me, who lay dreaming
of the way we'd go together.

Did you ever hear
of such a thing?

[Quartermain] Hurry
up, they're starting.

You're heading the wrong way.

Aren't we going after me father?

No. But...

Put on your boots and
get into the wagon.

I told your father
I'd look after you.

You knew he was going
and you let him go by himself.

Allan Quartermain,
will you take me after me father, please?

We'll look for
the mines together.

And when we find them,
you'll have your share

and more, much more.

Doesn't a fortune
mean anything to you?

All right, if you won't take me in
your wagon I'll go on me own 2 feet.

Did you hear what I said?

I did.

Then why don't you
say something?

[Quartermain] Because
you're not going to do it.

The Inkoosikas goes
across the river.

Yes, I do.

What business is it of yours?

The Inkoosikas has
the map. I guide her.

The map's in my wagon.
No one's going across the river.

Kathy, get into that wagon.

Get into that wagon!

What's your name?

I have many names.

One will do. Umbopa.

Where do you come from?

You're after diamonds.

White men care for diamonds.

Then why do you want to go north?
Move up.

[Speaking Kukuana]

Now, look here, Umbopa.

If you won't take service with me,
I don't want you hanging about my camps.

[Speaking Kukuana]

That fella's up to no good.

Allan Quartermain,
I'll never speak to you again. Never!

I'm used to silence.

[Shouting]

[Man speaking Kukuana]

[Quartermain speaking Kukuana]

My clients arrived last night.

It'll be quite nice to
have somebody to talk to.

Put the Englishman’s gear in here.
We'll use this wagon.

How are you, Quartermain?

How are you, sir?
I'm afraid I kept you waiting.

This is Miss O'Brien.

[Henry] How do you do?

Did you have a good trek?

No, I did not.

Don't mind Miss O'Brien, Sir Henry.
She's strong and silent.

The map is in the wagon.

How did you get here?

Inkoosikas does not
forget her purpose?

Good will insists
on having his bath.

No reason for being
unsanitary, even in Africa.

Quite right.
Well, I'll see you both at dinner.

Yes. How do you get
out of this thing?

You better ask Sir
Henry to tip you out.

Right.

No, no... [mumbling]

Sir Henry. Sir Henry Curtis.

Sir Henry Curtis.

Will you help me, please?
I'm in terrible trouble.

Mr. Quartermain wants me
to send the wagon north

so that the boys can have camp ready
when you arrive but they won't obey me.

Mutiny, eh?

Glory be to god,
I thought it was a pig.

Commander Good, royal Navy.

Retired.

I'll go fetch Quartermain.

Ah, no. Please don't.

I don't want him to
know I've had trouble.

Will you speak to them?

Of course I'll speak to them.

By the way,
I thought you were strong and silent.

You wouldn't believe Mr. Quartermain.
He's a terrible liar.

Gentlemen, the queen.
God bless her.

With your permission,
I'll light up.

And with yours I'll run
over a few of my proposals.

I take it you want to get a
sable antelope, sir Henry.

Is miss O’Brien often
as late as this?

She'll show up
when she's hungry.

She seemed to me to be
a capable young person.

Hmm... yes, capable of anything.

She'd have stolen one of my wagons
if I hadn't kept me eyes open.

[Quartermain] Anything wrong?

I take it it's in order
for sir Henry to tell

your wagon boys to
obey the young lady.

With the result that your
wagon is now proceeding north

to establish a camp.

But she told me...

My boy, I'm afraid
you're the victim
of a woman's wiles.

We must go after her.

We certainly must.
My only toothbrush
is in that wagon.

She has 3 hours start.
It'll be 2 days before
I gather a team.

She told me those boys
were mutinous.

I'm afraid, sir Henry,
that it's miss O’Brien
who is mutinous.

Will you have a
little more port?

♪ I'm not afraid ♪

♪ I'm not afraid ♪

♪ Why should I care
if my journey's long ♪

♪ I'm sure to get there ♪

♪ Though my journey's long ♪

♪ My team and my wagon
are strong ♪

♪ [playing harmonica]

♪ Struggle along ♪

♪ Struggle along ♪

♪ Oxen of mine ♪

♪ Till your shoulders crack ♪

♪ Keep plodding along ♪

♪ Till your shoulders crack ♪

♪ I'll never be
turning you back ♪

♪ Walk, walk ♪

♪ Oxen of mine ♪

♪ Answer my whip when it falls ♪

♪ Walk, walk ♪

♪ Keep in your line ♪

♪ Leopards wait to get
the one that falls ♪

♪ Get up and walk ♪

♪ Walk, oxen of mine ♪

♪ Shining as bright
as the moon ♪

♪ Walk, walk ♪

♪ Keep in your line ♪

♪ There will be
a water hole soon ♪

♪ We'll come to
that water hole soon ♪

♪ Walk, walk ♪

♪ You better keep on ♪

♪ Think of that sun in the sky ♪

♪ Walk, walk ♪

♪ Hurry along ♪

♪ Or the sun will drink
that water dry ♪

♪ Get up and walk, walk ♪

♪ Strain at your load ♪

♪ Though you are
weary and sore ♪

♪ Walk, walk ♪

♪ Keep to the road ♪

♪ Soon you'll be
resting once more ♪

♪ Soon you'll be
resting once more ♪

♪ Walk, walk ♪

♪ Oxen of mine ♪

♪ Answer my whip when it falls ♪

♪ Yah, Yah ♪

♪ Keep in your line ♪

♪ Leopards wait to get
the one that falls ♪

♪ Get up Yah, Yah ♪

♪ Oxen of mine ♪

♪ Shining as bright
as the moon ♪

♪ Yah, Yah ♪

♪ Keep in your line ♪

♪ There will be
a water hole soon ♪

♪ We'll come to
that water hole soon ♪

♪ Ia-da-da-da ♪

♪ Ia-da-da-da ♪

♪ Ia-da-da-da da-da-da-da-da ♪

♪ Da-da-da-da ♪

♪ Da-da ♪

[Quartermain] You're 9 miles north
of the hill, heading for the desert,

in a stolen wagon.

And what's left of my trousers.

[Quartermain] You're
coming back tomorrow.

Meanwhile, commander good
would like his toothbrush.

Yes.

If you weren't a girl,
I'd give you the hiding of your life.

Ashamed of yourself?

But I'd do it again.

Ready to come back?

I'm not coming back.

I made up me mind to go after
me father and I'm going.

Not in my wagon.

I don't want your wagon anymore.

You can't take a wagon over the desert
because you can't take any oxen.

Why?

Because they drink too much.

Who told you that?

I did, Inkoosi.

What are you doing here?

[Kathy] I brought him.

Look, Kathy, I don't know what
this man's been telling you,

but I give you my word no
one can cross that desert.

How does the Inkoosi know?

I'm gonna try. I'm not afraid.

The Inkoosikas is ready.

I'm in charge here. Clear out!

Wait,
we can't let these 2 go alone,

but why shouldn't
we go with them?

Good suggestion.
Solves the problem.

I won't have it.

Nobody's asking you.

I thought you wanted
to go hunting.

You know, hunting, fishing,
anything with a little adventure in it.

Do you know how men
die for lack of water?

Thirst, burning thirst
that turns to pain.

Torture, then you go mad

and the sun kills you.

Imaginative fellow, isn't he?

Quartermain.

I'm sorry our trip's
had to end like this.

How do you mean "end"?

We'll be away for some time.

Can't ask you to wait for us.

Sir Henry Curtis,

I was engaged to
take you upcountry

and to bring you back to
the best of my ability.

I happen to be a man
who respects a contract.

I'm lining up with
the rest of you.

You're a good
fellow, Quartermain.

On the contrary, I'm a fool.

How are your feet?

All right. How are yours?

Fine.

Nice about our feet, isn't it?

Are you really going all
through this just for diamonds?

The Inkoosi says so.

I didn't say anything.
I'm asking you.

Why is Inkoosi going?

Blessed if I know.

You're not one for a bit of
gossip, are you?

The mountains don't seem
to get any nearer, do they?

No, they don't, do they?

No... no, they...

No, they don't.

Feeling better?

Must you keep on asking me?

I needn't.

I'd sure miss it if you didn't.

How long will the water last?

Tomorrow.

If I...

If I don't get another chance,

I'm sorry about everything.

What are those birds up there?

[Umbopa] Assvogels.

They must be to live
in a place like this.

We call them "the bird
that smells death."

Huh? Oh.

Good! Come here.

O’Brien wagon.

Go back and keep her talking.

Fetch the others.

[Henry] That's the
last ration of water.

Half a bottle each.

That's good, I...

I see by the map that we ought to get
to pan bad water by midday tomorrow.

Why's it called "pan bad water"?

Because in 300 years
it may have dried up.

Oh...

Oh, I see, yes.

Go on, drink it.

What's the use, Curtis?

There's no point
in her surviving us.

Sand! Go down!

Run!

[Wind whistling]

[Wind howling]

I smell water.

I smell water.

I smell water.

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Shouting]

[Speaking Kukuana]

Look! The mountains are near!

[Umbopa] ♪ climbing
up climbing up ♪

♪ Till I'm holding
the clouds in my hand ♪

♪ Climbing up climbing up ♪

♪ Till the world
is below where I stand ♪

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ To the land that I know ♪

♪ Must lie over that mountain ♪

♪ Climbing up climbing up ♪

♪ For my heart is
away in that land ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

[Echoing] ♪ mighty mountain ♪

♪ Oh you mountain ♪

[Echoing] ♪ mountain ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

♪ Oh you mountain ♪

♪ Gonna climb you ♪

[Echoing] ♪ climb you ♪

♪ Gonna climb you ♪

[Echoing] ♪ gonna climb you ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

[Echoing] ♪ mighty mountain ♪

♪ Climbing up climbing up ♪

♪ Till I'm holding
the clouds in my hand ♪

♪ Climbing up climbing up ♪

♪ Till the world is
below where I stand ♪

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ To the land that I know ♪

♪ Must lie over that mountain ♪

♪ Climbing up climbing up ♪

♪ For my heart is
away in that land ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

[Echoing] ♪ mighty mountain ♪

♪ Oh you mountain ♪

[Echoing] ♪ oh you mountain ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

♪ Oh you mountain ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

Breakfast ready?

[Kathy] Nearly.

We had melons for
breakfast yesterday.

We did.

And melons the day before.

We did.

I suppose we're gonna
have melons today?

[Both] We are.

Don't the birds in this
country ever lay eggs?

I wonder how far me
father is ahead of us?

You sure he got this far?

Of course I am.

Patrick O’Brien has always
done what he set his mind to.

What did you think
about in the desert?

Sand, mostly.

Did you ever think of me?

Yes...

You and the sand.

I'm glad of that because you're gonna
see a lot of me in the next few weeks.

Am I?

I'm afraid you can't avoid it.

You see, we're in
uninhabited country.

I hate to contradict you but,

there's a man behind that rock...

Several men.

They seem anxious to meet us.

Much too anxious.

[Shouting in Kukuana]

What's happened?

They say, "what manner of man is
this with the beautiful white legs",

"who grows hair on
one side of his face"

"and can pluck his eye from his
head and replace it where it grows?"

[Speaking Kukuana]

He's telling them you are
white gods from the skies.

You mean, on account of my legs?

I never thought they
were as good as all that.

[Speaking Kukuana]

He couldn't have done that
better if he'd been an Irishman.

♪ [Drum beating]

♪ [Drums beating]

♪ [Chanting]

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Man shouting]

♪ [Chanting, drums beating]

[Shouting in Kukuana]

♪ [Chanting and drumming]

There are a lot of people about
for an uninhabited country.

[Quartermain]
This is a military crowd.

I hope the cooking's good.

Those are the soldiers' quarters.
That's the king's hut.

Buckingham Palace and
Willington Barracks.

So unlike the home life of
our dear queen, isn't it?

Suppose Patrick
O'Brien's in there?

Don't worry.
Me father's gone after diamonds.

King Solomon's mines,
that's where we'll find him.

If there is such a mine.

[Speaking Kukuana]

I suppose he says he isn't in.

He said, "the Twala, the king"

"will see the strangers who come
to his land and claim to be gods."

[Cheering]

I don't like the
look of their Spears.

It's all right.
They think we're gods.

I hope the Twala does.

Head up. If he thinks we're
afraid anything may happen.

[Speaking Kukuana]

Ha ha ha ha...

[Shouting]

Would it do any good if I whipped
off my trousers, do you think?

[Speaking Kukuana]

He asks,"why do the
gods honor his kingdom?

"Is it the white
stones they seek?"

Diamonds!

There is a mine. Tell him yes.

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Speaking Kukuana]

He's gonna take us.

King Solomon's mines.

The greatest treasure
in the world.

With me father inside
filling his pockets.

[Shouting orders]

[Crowd murmuring]

It seems they are nice
fellows after all.

I hope you're right.

What are you going to do
with your share of the money?

If we get out of this,
go back to England and keep sheep.

I think I'll buy myself a
battleship and rejoin the Navy.

♪ [Chanting]

Scared?

Of course I'm not.

Not very.

King Solomon's road and the
silent ones to guard it,

broken and overgrown.

I wonder how many civilizations
have perished like this one?

Solomon had nothing
to do with idols.

The Phoenicians did. They were the
great traders of Solomon's time.

Perhaps some Phoenician
ran the mine.

Gagool, the witch doctor
who looks after the mines.

These people believe that
she's 100's of years old.

Would you say that she
was well-preserved?

Reminds me of my
poor old aunt Hannah.

She came to no good.

[Speaking Kukuana]

She asks why the white man's
servant walks like a prince?

I've noticed it myself,
an uncommonly good Walker.

Ask her if she's
seen a white man.

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Speaking Kukuana]

She has?

Perhaps it was yesterday,

perhaps it was 100 years ago.

Time has no meaning to her.

[Rumbling]

Through that door,
slaves brought jewels

for the queen of Sheba
thousands of years ago.

And Patrick O’Brien went in
to find his fortune. Come on.

Careful, Inkoosi.

Twala dare not harm you here.
The people think you gods.

Once inside,
he has no one to fear.

The stone will roll back.

[Shouting]

Come away.

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Shouting]

[Rumbling]

Get out of here!

Give me that!

[Shouts]

Kill him,
you'll have the lot on us.

They've never seen
a gun fired before.

[Crowd screaming]

I bet that made him
feel pretty silly.

♪ [Drums beating]

♪ [Chanting]

Our one chance is to escape
before they make up their minds.

I'm afraid it is.

Someone will have to
deal with the guard.

Pity,
seemed a very decent fellow.

All right, but
I'm stopping here.

Kathy, be sensible. You can't.

I came here to find me father.

There isn't a vestige of proof
that your father ever reached here.

Have it your own way.

Me shamrock!

But I... it's not...

It is his! Me father's!

So he is here.

Now do you want me to run away?

Where did you find this?

On the way to the mine.

Kathy, you saw what
nearly happened to us.

This proves that it must
have happened to your father.

If your father loved you
as much as you love him,

he'd be the last one
to want you to stay.

Wouldn't he?

That's not fair.

I'm sorry, Kathy.

Agreed, we leave tonight?

Yes.

It is not agreed. You must stay.

I'm in charge here.
I told you that before.

That was in your country.
We are now in mine.

You cannot escape.

Everywhere, the men
of Twala watch.

One step beyond that door and
a spear will pierce your back.

How do you know that?

Tomorrow the drums beat,
they smell out the evildoers.

Gagool will put her Mark
on the enemies of the king.

They die like cattle.

Looks like a red- letter day
for all of us, doesn't it?

Yet the people are weary
of wickedness and blood.

If there was one to lead them,
they would rise up.

Isn't there one?

Perhaps he could be found.

Who are you?

The man who looks for diamonds
and hangs about your camp.

That's what you said.

Once there was
a king in this land,

Imotu the loved,
but he fought the wicked Gagool,

who is older than the
memory of the oldest man.

For that, she made his brother Twala
the one-eyed kill him while he slept.

The wife of Imotu and the son of
Imotu were driven into the desert.

It is said they died.

If they didn't, the son of Imotu
should be king and not Twala.

You are the son of Imotu.

I am the son of Imotu.

♪ [Drums beating]

[Whispering in Kukuana]

♪ [Drums beating, chanting]

[Umbopa speaking Kukuana]

The committee seems unanimous.

I always thought that fellow had
a spot of royal blood in him.

You don't get a snake on your
stomach for nothing, you know.

It is agreed.

Tomorrow at the smelling-out
of the evildoers,

they will lead the people of
the Kukuana against Twala,

but I need your help.

And in return
I offer you your lives

and the freedom of the mines.

For you, the diamonds, riches.

For you, adventure.

For you, the happiness
of the Inkoosikas.

Today, you saw
how Twala treats strangers.

If your father is alive,
he is in the mine.

How can we help you?

Behind Twala stands Gagool.

The people fear her magic.

They will rise only if you
show them a greater magic.

You live among us.
You know that the white man has no magic.

I must have magic.

And if we cannot give it?

The drums will roll
at the smelling-out.

Gagool will give the sign.

The killers will speed
to the evildoers.

They will beat us to death.

♪ [Chanting, drums beating]

Funny to think it's
derby day back home.

Very funny.

I had a bet on Manitoba.

There's no such horse.

There certainly is.
I've got it in my diary.

♪ [Chanting]

Here it is, derby day, Mani...

By Jove! Look here!

"11:15. Total eclipse of the sun
visible over Teneriffe, South Africa."

Magic! Good, you're a genius.

11:15. That ought
to settle 'em, eh?

It's a chance.

If we can hold out till 11:15.

Are you sure it's
this year's derby?

Of course, I wouldn't have had a bet on
last year's derby this year, would I?

No.

[Shouts]

[Drumming stops]

[Shouts]

[Crowd repeating chants
in Kukuana]

♪ [Rhythmic chanting]

[Crowd] Oooohh!

♪ [Drums beating]

♪ [Drums beating faster]

[Man screams]

What time is it?

11:10.

♪ [Drums beating]

♪ [Drums beating faster]

How long before they get to us?

A matter of minutes.

♪ [Drums beating faster]

[Man screams]

No sign of the eclipse yet.

We're next.

I hope I'm right about the time.

God help us if you're not.

♪ [Drums beating faster]

♪ [Drums beating faster]

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Shouts]

♪ [Crowd chanting]

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Crowd screaming]

♪ Kukuana Kukuana ♪

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ [clapping and song
continuing in Kukuana]

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ [rhythmic drumming
and clapping]

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ [singing in Kukuana]

♪ Kukuana ♪

[Crowd] ♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ [drumming]

♪ Kukuana ♪

♪ [drumming]

[Shouting]

♪ [Drums beating]

[Shouting]

♪ [Chanting]

♪ [Drum beating]

[Shouts in the distance]

[Shouting crowd approaches]

[Umbopa] Wa!

[Shouting]

[Umbopa yelling]

[Shouting]

Last time I fired this
thing, it didn't fire.

[Gun clicking]

It still doesn't.

[Shouting stops]

[Mumbling]

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Shouting]

[Shouts]

♪ [Chanting]

[Shouting]

♪ [Chanting]

[Shouting]

[Shouting]

[Screaming]

[Silence]

[Shouting in Kukuana]

[Crowd repeating chant]

Kathy? Kathy! She's gone.

Look!

Gagool, the mine!

Father! Father! Father!

Father!

Father!

Father!

Are you all right?

Indeed, I'm not all right,

not after breaking me leg.

[Rumbling]

Kathy!

Kathy!

Kathy! Come on!

Of course you would break
your leg in a place like this.

How do you expect
me to carry you?

You old devil.

Kathy! Kathy!

Come on, you can
get those later!

Kathy!

[Gurgling]

[Hissing]

Didn't I tell you he'd get here?

Thank god you're safe.

Of course I'm safe.

So this is what put
an end to the mines.

They stumbled upon a volcano.

How do you explain
those skeletons?

Miners trying to escape
and trapped by the lava.

Oh...
hurry up, Curtis, will you?

[Speaking Kukuana]

[Screams]

This is going, too!

Come on!

Too bad that when we get
to a fortune in diamonds,

the mountain should
decide to sit down on it.

It did not, then.

I've a fortune
here in me pocket.

There's enough
here for all of us.

Diamonds are not much use when
you're trapped behind solid rock.

I don't want to depress
you any further,

but I think there's
going to be an eruption.

That fall of rock, you know?

Volcanoes are nervous things,

it takes very little
to upset them.

[Explosions]

If it wasn't for me, you'd be
quietly shooting game in the south.

And then you'd have gone home

and married some nice girl

and lived in your big house.

And slowly grown old and
fat and disagreeable,

and ended up a feeble old man
with no one sorry to see you go.

No, I'd rather die young.

Strange, I used to hate dying.

I'd lie awake at night
thinking about it, scared.

But when you come to it,
it's not so bad after all.

[Rumbling]

[Explosions]

There's only one
thing I'm sorry about.

I'd like to have
seen Ireland again,

the Glen of Armagh
where I was born,

with the mountains
running down to the lakes.

We were to have
gone home next year.

You could have come with us.

[Umbopa] Quartermain!

[Echoing] Quartermain!

[Echoing] Quartermain!

Look! It's moving!

Good idea but...

It... it's bound to fall on us.

Umbopa?

[Umbopa] Curtis,
we must push it clear.

Ready?

Right.

[Umbopa] Ready?

This time.

It's gonna erupt!

Steady. Got him?

[Rumbling]

Come on!

Here my country ends,

but 100 of my men will
lead you across the desert.

Go now, my friends,

and at times, remember how we stood
shoulder to shoulder in the great battle.

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ Till I'm holding the
clouds in my hands ♪

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ Till the world is below ♪

♪ Where I stand ♪

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ To the land ♪

♪ That I know ♪

♪ Must lie over that mountain ♪

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ Climbing up ♪

♪ For my heart is away ♪

♪ In that land ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪

♪ Oh you mountain ♪

♪ Mighty mountain ♪