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    Watusi (1959)

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    What do you do when you shoot too much footage for one movie? The answer that MGM came up with was to make up a very low-budget film from the leftovers of King Solomon’s Mines (1950) – itself not exactly high-grade.

    Watusi was a vague spin-off from the original novel, using the name ‘Quartermain’ and very little else as Alan Quartermain’s son, Harry (George Montgomery) travels to Africa to find the treasure his father was unable to bring home.

    Several pieces of film were borrowed wholesale from the earlier movie, including the stampede sequence, and nothing whatsoever was added.

    This is even more surprising when one considers that the script was written by James Clavell, who wrote the entertaining Shogun.

    Harry Quartermain
    George Montgomery
    Erica Neuler
    Taina Elg
    Rick Cobb
    David Farrar
    Umbopa
    Rex Ingram
    Mohamet
    Dan Seymour
    Jim-Jim
    Robert Goodwin
    Amtaga
    Anthony M. Davis
    Gagool
    Paul Thompson
    Wilhelm von Kentner
    Harold Dyrenforth

    Director
    Kurt Neumann

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