RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN IN
“KING SOLOMON'S MINES”
© 2002. Okihei Enterprise, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Tribute to Richard Chamberlain

 

 
Allan Quatermain enters the Market Square 
in down-town Tongola with Jesse.

She is still looking anxious and she 
is overwhelmed by the flow of people.

 

 
Jesse:"Guess personal hygiene's not real big in down-town Tongola."
Allan:"Yeah!" "But try not to gawk, they'll think you're in love."

 

 
One of the Mapaki steps in front of Jesse and fingers her arm.
Repulsed, she slaps at his hands as Allan shoves him away and hurries Jesse along.
Allan:"Don't mind the Mapaki, they're just grocery shopping."
Jesse gives him a questioning look.
Allan:"Cannibals!"
Allan hurries forward ......
Allan:"Now that I've gotten you here, do you feel like telling me why?"
Jesse:"Nope."
Suddenly Jesse does a little leap and grabs her backside and spins 
around expecting to find some leering Arab, but she discovers instead.

 

 

 
Allan races to her, shouting........
But it 's too late....... surrounded by young beggars 
Jesse disappears behind a stand.

 

 
Allan who tries to get her finds his path blocked by beggars and merchants.
Allan:"A girl, have you seen an American girl?"
Meanwhile two Turks carry a large rug over their shoulders.
It isn't easy because the rug seems to have a mind of its own: 
Jesse muffled screams.
At Dogati's and Bockner's  place the Turks arrive with 
the rug and drop it on the rooftop floor.
Dogati:"What a wondrous weavers we have in Tongola!" 
"A talking rug!"
The Turks kick tthe rug an it unfurls. 
Jesse keeps on rolling right off the roof onto a passing wagon load of fruit.

 

 

 

 
Allan discovers Jesse and the wagon; 
he gripes the bridles and tries to stop the wagon.
Unfortunately he loses Jesse again!

 

 
Jesse finds the house of Isis.
Jesse:"Are you Kasam?"
Kasam:"I am Kasam."
Jesse:"Great!" 
"You don't know how glad I am to see you/"
"I'm looking for my father, Jediah Huston!"
Kasam:"Was he to meet you here today?"
Jesse:"Not today, no!" "He wrote to me two months ago and
said he was coming to see you about a map."
Kasam:"Many people come to see me about many maps."
He sweeps toward her with a bright gold collar and bracelets
Kasam:"Ah, this is a fascinating piece Egyptian, 
from the age of the Pharoes."
Jesse tries to slip away but Kasam forces the two bracelets on
Jesse's wrists and handcuffs her.

 

 

 
A loud crash!
Someome or something drops from a trap door in the ceiling into
the midst of a high stack of antiques, creating a cloud of dust.
The door of an antique wardrobe is flung open and out  steps a
none-plussed Allan Quatermain. He sticks his pistol into
the startled face of Kasam.
Jesse:"QUATERMAIN!"
Allan:"In town less than an hour and already you're keeping bad company."
Jesse:"You should have listened to Umbopo." 
"This isn't a friendly town."
Kasam:"There is no need for the gun!" 
"I was merely showing her some Egyptian slave bracelets." 
"If you like these, I'm sure  I can make a very good price."

 

 

 
Jesse is not intersted in bargains. Once free she grabs 
Kasam by the tunic and starts shaking him:
"Where is my father, you bad sheeted slime?"
Kasam:"Ah yes, it's coming back to me..... Huston you say.... 
Tall thin man." "He was here, examined the map and left."
Allan:"What map?"
Kasam:" I'm too embarassed to say..... to King Solomon's Mines."

 
 

Quatermain's attention has been drawn to a Mummy case with 
"Not for Sale" sign cross it. When he opens the case to reveal 
a muslin-covered Mummy, and starts to work the muslin with a knife.
When the muslin falls away Jesse screams:"Rupert, Rupert!"

Kasam:"Rupert? I've been swindled!"
Jesse:"You killed my father's assistant!" 
"Where is my father, you towel-headed creep!"
The muslin falls away to reveal the black statue of a woman's body.
Jesse grabs the statue and swings barely missing Kasam's head.
Kasam bolts for the door. He's quick for a fat guy, but Jesse is quicker and 
she catches him on the back of the head of the statue. He drops rolls away,
as the statue comes down again, this time catching the door and cracking 
in half. Kasam is upset by the broken statue.

Kasam:"Look what you have done!"
Jesse studies the stub of the statue ......
"These symbols .....they're Canaanite."
She drops down beside Kasam, jerks the other half 
of the statue from his hand and says:
"This is it, isn't it?" "This is the map!"
"A dead Rupert, the map...........it proves my father was here!"
Quatermain cocks the pistol.
Kasam:"Kill me and you'll never find Huston."
Jesse:"Then he's alive."
Kasam:"Yes, but hidden......
you must understand I am a victim like your father."
Quatermain touching Kasam with the pistol:
"Where is he?"

 

 

 

 
Coincidentally Allan finds Huston in the hands of Bockner 
and Dogati when he looked around.
Dogati:"The map is here in Huston's head and we have him!"
Bockner:"Tomorrow we leave for the German camp in Barumba."
"If, by the time we arrived you haven't told us the way to the mines. 
I'll peel your skin off inch by wretched inch."

 

 

 
Umbopo carrys a struggling Jesse around the corner.
Jesse shoves away from him and turns back only 
to run into Quatermains arms.