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412:. Victory follows victory, with the defeated adding to the ranks of the swelling army. With their enemies vanquished, nobody is left to stand in their way, as they are summoned to the holy city of Sikandergul by the local high priest. He sets up a re-enactment of the arrow incident, to determine whether Dravot is a man or a god by seeing whether or not he bleeds. When his shirt is torn open, they are amazed to see the tag around his neck. It contains the sacred symbol left by Sikander, their name for Alexander the Great, who had promised to send a son to rule over them. 1456: 1012: 1517: 599:
ever seen!" Caine said that Connery did not like heights and was not fond of the final scene in which he had to walk to the middle of the bridge. Caine recalled, "There was a day when we were shooting on the rope bridge and Sean turned to John and said "Do you think the bridge looks safe?" John lowered his eyes and said, "Sean, the bridge looks the way it always has. The only difference is that today, you're going to be standing in the middle of it."
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gave the film four complete stars, writing the film is a "swashbuckling adventure, pure and simple, and in the hands of a master. It's been a long time since there's been an escapist entertainment quite this unabashed and thrilling and fun ...We get strong characterizations, we get excitement and,
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doubled for Sean Connery and it was he who performed the fall from the rope bridge at the film's climax. Execution involved a potentially fatal fall of 80 feet onto a pile of cardboard boxes and mattresses. Huston was so impressed with Powell's performance he said, "That's the darndest stunt I've
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and cancels his pact with Carnehan to avoid women, saying he will marry her to leave the people an heir. When Roxane is reluctantly brought to him, he tries to kiss her, but she, terrified that the touch of a god means death to a mortal, bites his cheek. Seeing him bleed, the people realise he is
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Hailing Dravot as king as well as god, they show him the royal treasury, which is full of gold and jewels that are now all his. Carnehan suggests that they leave with as much loot as they can carry. Dravot, however, is beginning to enjoy the adulation of the locals, settling their disputes and
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for the roles. Newman advised Huston that British actors should play the roles, and it was he who recommended Connery and Caine. Caine was very keen to appear, especially after he was told that his part had originally been written for Humphrey Bogart, his favourite actor as a young man.
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was released by CBS/Fox Video on laserdisc on 12 August 1993. Then was released by Warner Home Video on DVD in Region 1 on 19 November 1997, and was re-issued on 9 November 2010, followed by a Region A Blu-ray release on 7 June 2011. In Region 2, the film was released on DVD by
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Maurice Jarre scored the film and invited classical Indian musicians to participate in the recording sessions with a traditional European symphony orchestra. A key song, which figures within the plot of the movie, is a fusion of the music of the Irish song
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felt the film "manages to be great fun in itself while being most faithful to Kipling, whose story, written in the 1890's, is a kind of raffish metaphor for the British colonial experience that did not end for another half century."
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is approached by a ragged derelict who reveals himself to be Peachy Carnehan, an old acquaintance. Carnehan reveals what happened to him and his comrade-in-arms Danny Dravot, ex-sergeants of the British Army.
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magazine wrote, "John Huston has been wanting to make this movie for more than twenty years. It was worth the wait. A mellow, brassy, vigorous movie, rich in adventure and melancholy,
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Three years earlier, Dravot and Carnehan had met Kipling. After stealing Kipling's pocket-watch, Carnehan found a masonic tag on the chain, and realising he had robbed a fellow
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Frustrated at the lack of opportunities for lucrative criminal mischief, in an India becoming more civilised and regulated and with little to look forward to in the
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had been a pet project of John Huston's for decades after he had read the book as a child. Huston had planned to make the film since the 1950s, originally with
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After signing a contract pledging mutual loyalty and forswearing women and drink, the two set off on an overland journey north beyond the
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except dreary, poorly paid jobs, the two visit Kipling with a plan. Forsaking India, they will head with twenty rifles and ammunition to
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selected the film as Caine's best-ever role. Both Connery and Caine have considered the movie their favorite of all they had worked on.
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in the roles of Daniel and Peachy. He was unable to get the project off the ground before Bogart died in 1957; Gable followed in 1960.
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was critical of the film mostly because of Caine's performance, stating "Whether it was the intention of the director-adapter
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or not, the tale of action and adventure became a too-broad comedy, mostly due to the poor performance of Michael Caine".
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Outnumbered in the ensuing battle, Dravot is captured and is made to walk onto a rope bridge, where he sings the hymn "
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as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator). The film follows two rogue ex-soldiers, former
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The role of Roxanne (the only listed female character in the movie) was originally slated for
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While on location, Caine strongly objected to an assistant director's racist treatment of
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Simon, John (12 January 1976). "Over the Mountains, Across the Oceans, Beyond the Pale".
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in London on 18 December 1975 before opening to the public on the following day.
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Both sides take him to be a god, though in fact the arrowhead was stopped by his
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was present, so Huston and Caine persuaded her to take on the role.
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TimesTalks: Michael Caine: Five Favorite Films | The New York Times
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is also a meditation on the excesses of ambition and avarice."
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magazine considered the film to be Huston's best work since
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represents the best work Huston has done in a decade. Like
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as an equal. He is also smitten with the beautiful young
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Call It Magic: The Making of The Man Who Would be King
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best of all, we get to laugh every once in a while."
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were then approached to play the leads, followed by
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Index


Tom Jung
John Huston
Gladys Hill
The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
John Foreman
Sean Connery
Michael Caine
Christopher Plummer
Saeed Jaffrey
Shakira Caine
Oswald Morris
Russell Lloyd
Maurice Jarre
Allied Artists
Columbia Pictures
adventure film
Rudyard Kipling
1888 novella
John Huston
Sean Connery
Michael Caine
Saeed Jaffrey
Christopher Plummer
non-commissioned officers
British Army
British India
Kafiristan
Rudyard Kipling

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