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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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John Huston
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Actors:
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Doghmi Larbi,
Jack May,
Mohammad Shamsi,
Paul Antrim,
Karroom Ben Bouih,
Albert Moses,
Graham Acres,
The Blue Dancers of Goulamine,
Shakira Caine,
Sean Connery,
Michael Caine,
Christopher Plummer,
Saeed Jaffrey
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Duration:
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129 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)119
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Plot Summary:
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Sean Connery and Michael Caine play a pair of adventurers who undertaking to firm themselves up as kings in a remote district by convincing the locals that Connery is a demiurge. John Huston dreamed of adapting this Rudyard Kipling lie for decades, and the years of thought and passion be visible on protect: Lively and visually lavish, it??™s one of the kingpin??™s unsurpassed films and another of his disingenuous meditations on stinginess and initiative.
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Tally Ho!
A thrilling Victorian adventure with superb performances by the two leads (Caine and Connery) - possibly their best. Any fan of the Flashman books will love this film. And if you do love this film and haven't read Flashman - I strongly urge you to!
It is also a good representation of the times of Empire, and the attitudes of societies prevailing at the time.
One for the history buff as well as for fans of boy's own adventure!
Man Who Would Be King, The
Connery and Caine combine in this cautionary tale about two soldier-adventurers who head for Kafiristan to make their fortunes - and are raised to kingship by the fierce tribes that live there
Kipling's short story, a parable against get-rich-quick colonialism, was turned by Huston into an imperial adventure yarn, a throwback to films like Gunga Din (1939), but with undertones of his earlier cautionary tale warning against greed and vaulting ambition, The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre.
Connery and Caine (Huston, who had wanted to make this film since the 1940s) originally wanted Gable and Bogart some years before) work well together as two ex-soldier adventurers who fulfil their shared ambition to become king on the Northwest frontier - and the...
Man Who Would Be King, The
Huston first mooted his Kipling adjustment in the '40s (for Gable and Bogart), but the wait proved more than...
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