The Man Who Would Be King
by John Huston, Ed Apfel, Lawrence Tetenbaum
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Actor: Don Morrow, John Foreman, John Huston, Michael Caine, Sean ConneryDirector: Ed Apfel, John Huston, Lawrence Tetenbaum
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: John Foreman
Writer: John Huston
Producer: Ed Apfel
Writer: Gladys Hill
Writer: Rudyard Kipling
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-11-19
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Man Who Would Be King
Movie Review: Kippling at his best.
Summary: 5 Stars
Classic video and a classic epic. I recorded this 20+ years ago on VHS from the Hallmark Classic Channel.
This is an educational story fit for every age group (especially in today's time).
Huston at his best.
Summary of The Man Who Would Be King
For queen country and one heckuva time. Sean connery and michael caine are soldiers of the empire who become fortune seeking adventurers in john hustons film based on rudyard kiplings yarn. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Sean Connery Christopher Plummer Run time: 129 minutes Rating: Pg Director: John HustonA grandly entertaining, old-fashioned adventure based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, The Man Who Would Be King is 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 (The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen) 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 able to finally realize 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. In today's screen adventures, humor is usually imposed on the material by a writer or director trying to make some kind of cleverly self-aware comment ("Hey, we know it's a movie!"), but that sort of jokiness can create so much ironic distance that it pushes the audience right out of the picture. Huston lets the humor emerge naturally from the characters, for whom we wind up caring more deeply than we ever expected. The digital video disc includes a wonderful documentary on the making of the film. --Jim Emerson
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