Word: quartermaine
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...Good War is not the cold war, and an international page turner should never be confused with a geo-political thriller. The one man who can save Thomas is American David Quartermain, who fathered the illegitimate boy and is sitting out the war in Vermont. Quartermain, whose name evokes the dauntless hero of King Solomon's Mines, is not just well off. He is a member of the most powerful banking family in the U.S. For lagniappe, he bears a striking resemblance to Gary Cooper. The boy's only protector is a supermarksman out of Ghostbusters. Miquel is the sort...
...each turn, Laemmle edges closer to his goal. At every escape, Thomas becomes a little wearier, a trifle more dependent on a cast of peasants, restaurateurs, shopkeepers and devious intelligence operatives. None are so devious or inventive as he is. The most adept, of course, proves to be Quartermain, flown in to rescue the child of his brief and passionate liaison with Maria...
King Solomon's Mines (Gaumont-British) is good-old-fashioned adventure adapted from H. Rider Haggard's 50-year-old melodrama. In quest of legendary diamonds encased in Africa's jagged Drakensberg Mountains go doughty Allan Quartermain (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Kathy O'Brien (Anna Lee), Captain Good (Roland Young), Sir Henry Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good...
...with modernistic settings, actors in mufti, sundry sensationalisms. In tune with her time, Jane Cowl has for her stage settings a huge book of Shakespeare which is unfolded to make various scenes. Her performance as Viola is lively, her grace and beauty are used to good effect. But Leon Quartermain gives the most worthy interpretation, bringing rich and affecting pathos and frustration to the difficult role of pompous Major Domo Malvolio...
...persisted for a great many years. From time to time strange tales come out of the African and South American jungles of wandering explorers, delirious from hunger and thirst, who have stumbled upon communities of fair haired, light skinned Indians, with aquiline Moses and peculiarly clear cut features. Allan Quartermain found them, and so have several others whose reports have never been substantiated. There is always a suspicion of fever, hallucination, or temporary derangement on the part of the eye witness that makes complete belief impossible...
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