It's a cornucopia of humor, honesty, philosophy, irony and fact. Directed by John Huston. Connery and Caine deliver on distinct, firecracker charisma that defines the Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan characters as, well, Connery and Caine, respectively, but also as down-to-earth, yet still strong and unique enough for them to be bought as people who would find themselves in such grand situations as the ones portrayed in this interesting story. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are both excellent, with good support from Christopher Plummer and Saeed Jaffrey.
John Huston loved making it eh? Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. The film fails to open terribly strong and just kind of limps out, but just when you succumb and fear that the film will descend to underwhelmingness, the film, well, just enters second act, and that's about it. It is a fantastic tale of deceit and ingenuousness.
The dialogue is sparkling and the photography superb. It's been a long time since there's been an escapist entertainment quite this unabashed and thrilling and fun. Two scrappy if amoral Brit Adventurers decide to carve out a bit of the third world for themselves (just as they've seen nations, particularly their own, do). Just confirm how you got your ticket.Fandango Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. You knew that the ruse was going to be up at some point and it was interesting to see how it all unravels.
The result, as one might expect, is lively, totally assured, and certainly one of Huston's more bracing movies, though inevitably the story emerges much expanded, with different emphases.
Rudyard Kipling's story from nineteenth-century India is brought brilliantly to the screen in this 1975 film.
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Great fun, suitable for family viewing but with 'serious' overtones as in seriously well-made. With Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey. It was worth the wait. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This was the cockney Caine era and he is wonderful as the only one who truly knows Connery's mortality. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. The film is certainly impressive on a technical level, and while those technical values have dated to a certain extent, they carry this film quite a long ways, while the man who keeps this film going the rest of the way is Rudyard Kipling, who really has crafted a fascinating and lively story that I'm sure must make for a pretty good read, as it does make for a pretty good concept for this film. Connery and Caine charm by their own rights, and as a duo, they're sensational, boasting electric chemistry that defines the definitive comradery between our two leads and does the most in carrying this film, something that I wish had more than just the charm of its leads, worthiness of its source material, quality of its technical value and inspired occasions in writing and direction to keep it going, yet is still nevertheless kept going enough for you to walk away, maybe not terribly satisfied, but still with more reasonably fond memories than disappointments.
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October 23, 2004 The Man Who Would Be King (1975) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. July 8, 2019 I'd probably seen The Man Who Would Be King in theaters or via VCR-rental at least a dozen times before I finally bought the CD. The Man Who Would Be King is more than just a movie. Highly entertaining tale based on a Kipling story, about two British Adventurers who set off to seek their fortune in a remote mountainous region to the north of India. And in the capable hands of larger than life director John Huston it all comes together beautifully.Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2018
It is a story that director John Huston had been trying to film for decades. There's no real conflict character-wise until the third-act, which is a bit off-putting.
The story is set in the past so doesn't date (you already know its old) and has some impressive scenic shots but mostly of Morocco which was were most of the filming took place. This is a film that I had been hearing about for a long time from various people that it was just a fantastic movie and one that doesn't get much attention these days. I saw it originally when it first came out and thought it was wonderful, hence my many subsequent viewings. Great story, great photography, great acting, great script.
| The Man Who Would Be King is more than just a movie. Directed by Jeanie Finlay. Hey, say what you will about the, well, still admittedly pretty cool title, but I'm betting that short story sure made for a good read, though the film, on the other hand, while reasonably worth watching, isn't exactly all that consistently thrilling of adventure film. With Jerry Adams, Sharon Attaway Nettleton, Gail Brewer-Giorgio, Boomer Castleman. The film definitely has some merit to it, but I do have to say that I was sort of bored for the first half hour or so.