Stars: Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine, Paul Antrim, Doghmi Larbi, Jack May

Director: John Huston

Summary: Two soldiers of fortune in 19th Century India carry out a plan to become rulers in the small isolated land of Kafiristan.

Based on the classic story by novelist Rudyard Kipling, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING follows two British adventurers (Sean Connery and Michael Caine), former soldiers in Her Majesty's Service, as they give up the drudgery of eking out a living, legal and illegal, in poverty Raj-ruled India, and set out for the isolated, desolate land of Kafiristan to become heroes or, perhaps, even kings. Christopher Plummer stars as Kipling himself in John Huston's engaging adventure picture.

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A grandly entertaining, old-fashioned adventure based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, The Man Who Would Be Kingis the kind of rousing epic about which people said, even in 1975, "Wow! They don't make 'em like that anymore". When director John Huston first started trying to make the film, with Gable and Bogart, the project was derailed by the latter's death. It was a few decades before Huston was finally able to realise his dream movie--and with an unimprovable cast. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are, respectively, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, a pair of lovably roguish British soldiers who set out to make their fortunes by conning the priests of remote Kafiristan into making them kings. It's a rollicking tale, an epic satire of imperialism, and the good-natured repartee shared by Caine and Connery is pure gold. Huston lets the humour emerge naturally from the characters, for whom we wind up caring more deeply than we ever expected. --Jim Emerson

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1975
Release Date:	October 28, 2002
Runtime:	123 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 10040
Keywords:	Man, Action, King, Who, General, Would, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure