Le miniere del Kilimangiaro (Afrikanter)

1986
PG-13
1h 35m

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Le miniere del Kilimangiaro (Afrikanter) (1986)

An American college student in 1930s Africa searches for a lost diamond mine near Mt. Kilimanjaro. He must battle Germans who are using the mine to finance their war plans, as well as Chines... Read allAn American college student in 1930s Africa searches for a lost diamond mine near Mt. Kilimanjaro. He must battle Germans who are using the mine to finance their war plans, as well as Chinese gangsters and murderous local tribesmen.An American college student in 1930s Africa searches for a lost diamond mine near Mt. Kilimanjaro. He must battle Germans who are using the mine to finance their war plans, as well as Chinese gangsters and murderous local tribesmen.

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Park rangers are shown driving a modern Land Rover. The film is set in the 1930s.

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Referenced in Rewind This! (2013)

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Unsatisfying Italian adventure

My review was written in December 1987 after watching the movie on Imperial Entertainment video cassette.

"The Mines of Kilimanjaro", a 1985 Italian production originally titled "Afrikanter", begins like a lame clone of "Raiders of the Lost Ark' and ends up a pale variation of "King Solomon's Mines". You know you're in trouble when the only name actor in the cast (Christopher Connelly) gets killed by a poison dart in the opening reel.

Connelly's main student, Tobias Hosl, is sent to Africa on a pre-W. W. II mission to find a legendary diamond treasure the Nazis apparently have discovered and are using to finance their expansionary program toward world conquest. He teams up with a cute archaeologist (Elena Pompei) and they trek to the mines at Kilimanjaro, finding a lost tribe (being used as slave labor by the Nazis) in the process.

Subpar production values and a sudden, unsatisfying finale sink this would-be adventure pic.