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  • Actors: Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine
  • Directors: John Huston
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Uca
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Aug 2007
  • Run Time: 123 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000UZPM80
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,794 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Rollicking Old Fashioned Adventure., 21 Jun 2009
After watching Oliver Stone's truly awful film "Alexander the directors cut" where credulity was well and truly stretched with the Irish accents and an overdose of male bonding, I was in dire need of an antidote. I decided to reacquaint myself with John Huston's "The Man who would be King". I was not disappointed. The film has aged very well in the thirty odd years since it was made.

It is based on a story by the very British Rudyard Kipling who had lived and worked in India. It is a simple adventure story in the tradition of "Kim" and "Gunga Din", two other stories he wrote that were set in India during the time of the raj. Both these books were made into films by Hollywood. Huston had wanted to make a film of the book since the fifties and originally wanted Gable and Bogart, then as time wore on it was Lancaster and Douglas then Redford and Newman. Finally sense prevailed when Newman suggested the two very British actors Sean Connery and Michael Caine. A very good choice they are too, playing roles made for them. In stark contrast to "Alexander" their accents fit in seamlessly.

The film follows the fortunes of two rogues, Daniel Dravet played by Connery and Peachey Carnehan played by Caine. These two colourful characters are time served soldiers of the British Raj. Their nefarious activities bring them into contact with Rudyard Kipling, played by Christopher Plummer, and they hatch a daring plan to make a fortune by becoming the first white men since Alexander the Great to enter the kingdom of Kafiristan in the remote Hindu Kush. After an epic journey they reach their destination where Danny after a stroke of fortune is revered as a God. Like Alexander he comes under the spell of an alluring woman called Roxanna played by Michael Caine's very beautiful wife Shakira. He decides to wed her which causes much consternation amongst the locals. Gods don't marry mere mortals and they certainly don't bleed. With untold wealth within their grasp will the pair escape before being rumbled?

The essence of the film picks up the quintessential Britishness of Kipling's work remarkably well, in an era when Britain had an empire and Brittania ruled the waves. It has a handsome look and there is much to be admired. The location filming in Morocco and Chamonix was very impressive. I have been to both places but still believed it must have been filmed somewhere on the sub continent around the Himalayas. The dress of the local inhabitants also seemed very authentic to my untrained eye. The music by Michael Jarre is an excellent mix, using music from India and blending it with his own style and some old British stiff upper lip colonial type music. Saeed Jaffrey gives excellent support as the loyal Billy Fish and I believe Connery and Caine were never better. The film is hugely entertaining and is a fine achievement. Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the book, 29 Jan 2009
Based on a short story by Kipling, I regard this as Micheal Caine and Sean Connery's best work. The film is expanded from the original work, but doesn't suffer as a result. The acting is convincing, quality of the DVD is good and makes an entertaining evenings viewing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A True Classic, 3 Nov 2009
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Legendary American filmmaker John Huston ("The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "Prizzi's Honor,") heads to Morocco to bring his long mooted adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling short story of the same title to the screen in a glouriously traditional piece of film making that proudly displays its pedigree and was nominated for four Academy Awards.

Sean Connery and Michael Caine are resplendent in their lead roles, clearly relishing every moment of the project, and the latter has said that if any film of his is remembered after his death, it would be this one, whilst Christopher Plummer heads up a supporting cast that includes an out-of-place Saeed Jaffrey and Caine's wife Shakira.

The director shows himself to be a master at the height of his craft with art direction, costume design and editing well deserving of the Oscar nomination and a powerful score from Maurice Jarre that, as Caine has said, makes the sort of film that, even when it first came out, everyone says "No-one makes pictures like this any more."

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