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The Man Who Would Be King is a British film of genre Drama directed by John Huston released in USA on 17 december 1975 with Sean Connery
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
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Add to a movie listThe Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 Technicolor film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling novella of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator). The film follows two rogue ex-non-commissioned officers of the Indian Army who set off from late 19th-century British India in search of adventure and end up as kings of Kafiristan.
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In 1885, while working as a correspondent at the offices of the Northern Star newspaper in India, Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) is approached by a ragged, seemingly crazed derelict, who reveals himself to be his old acquaintance Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine). Peachy tells Kipling the story of how he and his comrade-in-arms Daniel "Danny" Dravot (Sean Connery) traveled to remote Kafiristan (in modern-day Afghanistan, the province is now known as Nuristan), became "gods", and ultimately lost everything.Actors
Sean Connery
(Daniel Dravot)
Michael Caine
(Peachy Carnehan)
Christopher Plummer
(Rudyard Kipling)
Saeed Jaffrey
(Billy Fish)
Larbi Doghmi
(Ootah)
Rudyard Kipling
(1975)
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