Films
The novel has been adapted to film at least seven times. The first cinema adaptation (a silent film version) was directed by Horace Lisle Lucoque in 1919 (now lost),[21] followed by the first sound version in 1937, King Solomon's Mines, which was directed by Robert Stevenson. The best known version premiered in 1950, King Solomon's Mines, directed by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton, which was followed by a sequel, Watusi (1959). In 1979, a low-budget version was directed by Alvin Rakoff, King Solomon's Treasure, combining both King Solomon's Mines as well as Allan Quatermain in one story. The 1985 film, King Solomon's Mines, was a more tongue-in-cheek parody of the story, followed by a sequel in the same vein: Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987). Around the same period, an Australian animated TV film came out, King Solomon's Mines. In December 2006, the movie, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines was released as the second in a trilogy that follows one man’s fantastical adventures. In 2008, a direct-to-video adaptation, Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls was released by Mark Atkins, which bore more resemblance to Indiana Jones than the novel.
Comics
Cover art from King Solomon's Mines, Avon Periodicals, 1951, art by Lee J. Ames.- In 1951, Avon Periodicals published a comic book adaptation.[22]
- In 1952, a comic adaptation was published in Classics Illustrated #97, scripted by Kenneth W. Fitch and with drawings by H. C. Kiefer.[23]
- In 1954, British comics artist Dudley D. Watkins adapted the story into a text comics series.[24]
- In 2015, artist Pablo Marcos and writer Mark Ellis reimagined King Solomon's Mines as a graphic novel published by Ying Ko Graphics.
Television programs
In 1958, an episode of the BBC's Buried Treasure named King Solomon's Mines aired. Hosted by Sir Mortimer Wheeler.[25][26]
In 2002, a documentary was made by National Geographic Television in collaboration with Channel 4 in the UK: The Search for King Solomon's Mines.
In 2004, King Solomon's Mines, a two-part TV mini-series starring Patrick Swayze as Allan Quatermain, aired on the Hallmark Channel.
Radio
Kenneth Colley starred as Allan Quatermain in a 1990 BBC Radio 4 adaptation.[27]
A two-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation was broadcast in April 2017 starring Tim McInnerny as Allan Quatermain.[28]
"King Solomon's Mines" was the sixth episode of The General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, broadcast on 20 February 1977.[29]
