half of africa be explore on rumor and hope and legend and blood the same could be say of the film industry . the recupero and a the italian film industry dub it and be one of the most forlornly hopeful form of film make represent offset part of the cost of the film you want to make by film another on the cheap back to back with a many of the same cast and crew and location a possible in the hope that at least one of them would be a hit even though just about the only recorded case of that ever happen be when il magnifico straniero and shot back to back with bullet don not argue to use up waste material and become a surprise hit after change it title to fistful of dollar . much love by exploitation merchant and it be no surprise that cannon film would adopt the practice and especially after their two back to back miss in action picture prove surprisingly profitable . have rip off rambo and indiana jones seem the next obvious target and but their back to back sequel to 1985 king solomon mine and one of their least unsuccessful film ( well and it lose less than most of them ) and prove a disaster on every conceivable level . while h. rider haggard write enough unfilmed allan quatermain novel to keep a franchise run for a decade and allan quatermain and the lost city of gold be one of those film that so bad it just bad and make you glad they call it a day after this one . on paper it have everything you need for a somewhat average movie except enthusiasm and belief and a haggard great white hunter allan quatermain ( richard chamberlain ) postpone his wedding to a hyperactive and very loud sharon stone to find a lost city of gold in search of his miss brother ( freudian could probably read something into the fact that quatermain brother be play by chamberlain longtime companion martin rabbett ) and battle hostile tribe and booby trap and the element en route and brave the most pathetic backprojection see this side of the original dr who in a comically crank up log ride through an underground river . all of which happen in the least interesting way possible this be the kind of film where they do not even try to hide the wire on the stunt performer and where the extra just look bore in the final battle . even the score be just barely edited musical selection from an uncredited jerry goldsmith score for the previous film ( mostly just the crescendo ) with the odd synth drumbeat link them the sole audible contribution from credit composer michael linn . there not much gold on display in the lost city either and but then allan quatermain and the lost city of white doesn not really have the same ring to it . not that it a city represent it obviously a zimbabwean tourist hunt lodge that buy a job lot of white dress gown . you know it a pretty screw up place because one of it twin queen be play by elvira and the evil high priest be henry silva in one of diana ross old afro wig that see much well day ( a indeed have he ) . at time it play like a who can be the most annoying competition and with razzie nominate sharon stone forfeit her early lead to james earl jones too bore to bother warrior only for mork and mindy regular robert donner channel spike milligan and carry on up the khyber cardew robinson at the top of his voice a an indian holy man to steal the prize . it a surprise to see that it be shoot in post independence zimbabwe since it have many of the hallmark of the kind of film that use to shoot in apartheid south africa black be expendable child and indian comic buffoon with silly voice and white be the master race and everyone would stay happily in their place if it weren not for foreigner stir up trouble . where the first film have the director of the gun of navarone and the original cape fear and j. lee thompson and to keep thing professional enough and this have to settle for the director of the black hole and gary nelson ( with additional scene direct by newt arnold ) and who be singularly unable to motivate his cast and crew . chamberlain be barely make an effort here and clearly give up near the end and though it no surprise in a film that look like only the rehearsal be shoot and and only one take at that . the close it come to charm be when the real cold that stone be obviously suffer in one scene be clearly catch by chamberlain in the next . the big curiosity about the film be that most of the action in the trailer doesn not appear in the film at all despite look rather less inept that what make the final cut and leave the feeling of something that be patch together in post over the weekend on an ed wood budget . if you ever wonder why haggard other allan quatermain novel have never be film and this utterly dire and nigh unwatchable venture provide ample explanation .