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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johnsemlak" data-source="post: 2952008" data-attributes="member: 7233">51 Allan Quartermain<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/04/Lxg13.jpg/250px-Lxg13.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Sean Connery as Quartermain<img src="http://www.theraider.net/information/influences/gallery/before1981/kingsolomonsmines_02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Stewart Granger as QuartermainFrom the pen of H Rider Haggard (King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quartermain, et al.), Allan Quartermain is the prototype for the wandering adventurer treasure hunter who would eventually become Indiana Jones.  But Quartermain is a star in his own right.  The character has been played by Sean Connery, Stewart Granger, Richard Chamberlain, and others on the big screen, and Quartermain has made appearances in comics and other media.Inspired perhaps by the real-life 19th century adventurer Richard Burton and other explorers, Quartermain is the quintessential outdoorsman extraordinaire.  He's an expert on the outdoors, he knows (and respects) the local people, he speaks their languages, he's an accomplished traveller and hunter, he's a rugged individualist with a moral sense of what's right.In most stories in which he appears, Quartermain is a well-known safari-guide based in Africa, who gets involved in an improbable search for the legendary King Solomon's mines (which he believes are a myth), and other adventures.</blockquote>

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