peace in the society. The city has two queens — the noble and beloved, Nyleptha and her power-hungry sister, Sorais. But the real leader is the evil High Priest, Agon, feared by all. Allan raises the population against Agon and Sorais, who musters an army to recover the city by force. Allan realizes that they can make all the weapons they need out of gold, which is mined by the population. The final battle ends when, atop the temple, during a lightning storm, Allan uses Umslopogaas' axe to channel the lightning and melt the gold, causing it to flow off the side of the structure and pour over the attacking horde, turning Agon and his army into gold statues. Cast Richard Chamberlain as Allan Quatermain Sharon Stone as Jesse Huston James Earl Jones as Umslopogaas Henry Silva as Agon Robert Donner as Swarma Larbi Doghmi as Nasta Aileen Marson as Queen Nyleptha Cassandra Peterson as Queen Sorais Martin Rabbett as Robeson Quatermain Rory Kilalea as Dumont George Chiota as George Alex Heyns as Dutchman Stuart Goakes as the trader Themsi Times as the nurse Philip Boucher as the bartender Nic Lesley as the toothless Arab Fidelis Cheza as the Eshowe chief Andy Edwards as Stand-in for Richard Chamberlain Production The film was made simultaneously with its predecessor, King Solomon's Mines, although it was released a couple of years later. Despite the tremendous liberties both films took with the source material, being more similar in tone to the Indiana Jones film series, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold was loosely based, mostly, on the book sequel of Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, entitled simply Allan Quatermain. In that book, which depicts Quatermain's last adventure (although it's just the second in the series of novels), the character and his associates go searching for a lost white tribe in Africa, and end up involved in a war between the rival queens of the kingdom. An opulent set was constructed for the film just outside Victoria Falls. Music The film features just over half an hour of original music written by Michael Linn; for financial reasons, the producers reused material composed by Jerry Goldsmith for the first film (although Linn's score does use Goldsmith's main theme), supplemented with music composed for other productions from Cannon Films. The score was initially released by Silva Screen in 1988 on a CD with cues from Manifesto