The Man Who Would Be King
The film follows the exploits of Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot, two British soldiers in India who decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander.
8 July 1944, Ireland
20 December 1929, Muradabad, Uttar Pradesh, British India
8 January 1929, Malerkotla, Punjab, British India
1930, Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
14 March 1933, Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
23 February 1947, British Guiana [now Guyana]
19 December 1937, Kandy, Ceylon
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 April 1922, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
25 August 1930, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
May 27, 2011
...humor, romance, danger, pageantry, Freemasonry, and much derring-do...a good rousing adventure tale.
April 20, 2010
A delightful and memorable film.
June 17, 2009
The film is supposed to be fun -- despite its ending -- and even that is an interesting departure from the über-serious tone of most epics of the time.
June 11, 2011
... one of the most rousing adventures of the 1970s.
May 09, 2005
It's a tall tale, a legend, of steadfastness, courage, camaraderie, gallantry and greed, though not necessarily in that order.
July 03, 2012
It's a mystery why John Hustorn's exciting version of Kipling's classic adventure, terrifically acted by Sean Connery and Michael Caine, was such a commercial flop.
October 23, 2004
It's been a long time since there's been an escapist entertainment quite this unabashed and thrilling and fun.
October 22, 2008
A too-broad comedy, mostly due to the poor performance of Michael Caine.
June 06, 2011
Kipling's exhilarating and disconcerting tale of high adventure... [Blu-ray]
June 24, 2006
Connery and Caine (both excellent) become classic Huston overreachers, and echoes of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Moby Dick permeate the mythic yarn.
February 26, 2015
A decent but hardly great adventure escapist film, that's played for broad comedy.
April 20, 2010
John Huston has been wanting to make this movie for more than 20 years. It was worth the wait.
