Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986) Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

 

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WOW! One of my most wanted 80s titles but it's Olive!

That means no English subtitles!!


Strange that it's released first, before King Solomon's Mines.

With these MGM titles, they may be following Kino's practice of porting the timed subtitles script from MGM. So it all depends on if the DVD had them.

JoHud said:

With these MGM titles, they may be following Kino's practice of porting the timed subtitles script from MGM. So it all depends on if the DVD had them.

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Hmm.. I would hope so, but I don't think so.

No Olive Bluray until now has subtitles.

Konstantinos said:

Hmm.. I would hope so, but I don't think so.

No Olive Bluray until now has subtitles.

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Yes, but we haven't gotten to their new line of MGM titles. The Republic and Paramount films never had subtitles on their DVDs to begin with if they were ever on DVD at all with maybe one or two possible exceptions.


Plus their recent TV Show DVDs (i.e. King of the Hill s7&8) have subtitles included. Good sign they will include subtitles if the studio provides.

JoHud said:

Yes, but we haven't gotten to their new line of MGM titles. The Republic and Paramount films never had subtitles on their DVDs to begin with if they were ever on DVD at all with maybe one or two possible exceptions.


Plus their recent TV Show DVDs (i.e. King of the Hill s7&8) have subtitles included. Good sign they will include subtitles if the studio provides.

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Yes cautiously optimistic. The MGM titles currently on their site make no mention of subtitles on any of them, however

It should be noted that this movie also stars a pre-"Basic Instinct" Sharon Stone...

According to Cannon legend, producers Golan and Globus wanted "the Stone girl" in their Quatermain films. And so they got her...but who they really wanted was Romancing the Stone star Kathleen Turner....


KSM is fun but the sequel is a misery, though kind of a hoot given inept effects and other indignities of out-of-money filmmaking. (There's a new KSM soundtrack available for Jerry Goldsmith fans.)

This has been released these days in Germany (i think region 2 locked) along with the first movie (King Solomon's Mines)!!!

Comparing specs of Olive vs the German Koch release, it seems the latter is better since:

- it includes English subtitles
- it has these extras:
Interview with director Gary Nelson (22 min)
trailer (this only was in the Olive Bluray)
Picture gallery with rare promotional material
- The Olive one is housed in a BD25 whereas the Koch in a BD50.

Comparing some screenshots of the 2, they seem to be the exact same transfer, though maybe the Koch has better encoding (i'm not so sure since I can't compare between identical shots).


Here's the specs of both:

Olive release:

Disc Size: 23,119,214,027 bytes
Protection: AACS
BD-Java: Yes
Playlist: 00003.MPLS
Size: 22,747,219,968 bytes
Length: 1:39:36.387
Total Bitrate: 30.45 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 27000 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1862 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)

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Koch Release:

Disc Size: 37,480,470,425 bytes
Protection: AACS
BD-Java: No
Playlist: 00008.MPLS
Size: 30,013,339,008 bytes
Length: 1:39:35.552
Total Bitrate: 40.18 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 34866 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: German / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Subtitle: German / 19.060 kbps
Subtitle: English / 17.175 kbps

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Sorry to resurrect this thread, but why is the price of this so high ($29.95)? Is it out of print from Olive now? Amazon says "only 7 left" but then "more are on the way." I was late to the party in getting to this film (although a long time ago I had the old DVD). I'm interested but not at that price... DeepDiscount shows "Backordered"

Konstantinos said:

This has been released these days in Germany (i think region 2 locked) along with the first movie (King Solomon's Mines)!!!

Comparing specs of Olive vs the German Koch release, it seems the latter is better since:

- it includes English subtitles
- it has these extras:
Interview with director Gary Nelson (22 min)
trailer (this only was in the Olive Bluray)
Picture gallery with rare promotional material
- The Olive one is housed in a BD25 whereas the Koch in a BD50.

Comparing some screenshots of the 2, they seem to be the exact same transfer, though maybe the Koch has better encoding (i'm not so sure since I can't compare between identical shots).

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Another plus with the Koch release of this as well as King Solomon's Mines is the fact that Koch has the sound in 2.0 Stereo while Olive's respective releases of the same are mysteriously in 2.0 Dual Mono.