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Could you convert this from English to Dutch for me: "Half of Africa's been explored on rumor, hope, legend" "And blood" The same could be said of the film industry. The 'recupero,' as the Italian film industry dubbed it, was one of the most forlornly hopeful forms of film-making: offsetting part of the cost of the film you wanted to make by filming another on the cheap back-to-back with as many of the same cast, crew and locations as 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 happening was when Il Magnifico Straniero, shot back-to-back with Bullets Don't Argue to 'use up waste materials,' became a surprise hit after changing its title to Fistful of Dollars. Much loved by exploitation merchants, it was no surprise that Cannon films would adopt the practice, especially after their two back-to-back Missing in Action pictures proved surprisingly profitable. Having ripped off Rambo, Indiana Jones seemed the next obvious target, but their back-to-back sequel to 1985's King Solomon's Mines, one of their least unsuccessful films (well, it lost less than most of them), proved a disaster on every conceivable level. While H. Rider Haggard wrote enough unfilmed Allan Quatermain novels to keep a franchise running for a decade, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is one of those films that's so bad it's just bad, making you glad they called it a day after this one.On paper it has everything you need for a somewhat average movie except enthusiasm and belief, as Haggard's Great White Hunter Allan Quatermain (Richard Chamberlain) postpones his wedding to a hyperactive and very loud Sharon Stone to find a lost city of gold in search of his missing brother (Freudians could probably read something into the fact that Quatermain's brother is played by Chamberlain's longtime companion Martin Rabbett), battling hostile tribes, booby traps and the elements en route and braving the most pathetic backprojection seen this side of the original Dr Who in a comically cranked-up log ride through an underground river.
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'Half Afrika is verkend op basis van geruchten, hoop, legenden.' 'En bloed.' Hetzelfde kon gezegd worden van de filmindustrie. De'recupero', zoals de Italiaanse filmindustrie het noemde, was een van de meest troosteloze hoopvolle vormen van filmmaken: je verzachtte een deel van de kosten van de film die je wilde maken door een andere op goedkope wijze te maken, rug aan rug met zoveel mogelijk leden van dezelfde cast, crew en locaties als mogelijk was, in de hoop dat ten minste één ervan een succes zou worden, ook al was zo ongeveer de enige keer dat dat ooit gebeurde, de opname van Il Magnifico Straniero, rug aan rug met Bullets Don't Argue om "afvalmateriaal te gebruiken". Het was geen verrassing dat de films van Cannon, waar de uitbuiters zo dol op waren, deze praktijk overnamen, vooral nadat hun twee films van Rambo in actie verrassend winstgevend bleken te zijn.