Allan Quatermain
Sean ConneryLiterary Origins In a series of novels by H. Rider Haggard, the first and most famous of which is ''King Solomon's Mines,'' Quatermain is a British elephant hunter who, through luck and pluck, survives countless treacherous adventures throughout Africa.
In the Comic The ''great colonial explorer'' is found washed up in an opium den in Cairo and dragged back to serve his country. This Quatermain is a cowardly opportunist with an addictive personality who is heroic mainly because he's in the right place at the right time.
On Screen The film's Quatermain is a cross between James Bond and Indiana Jones. And don't look for Connery to inhale -- in order to garner a PG-13 rating, the drug references were cut and instead, according to costar Tony Curran, ''they find [Quatermain] drinking in some old bar in Africa.''
