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The Man Who Would Be King
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Product Description
For queen, country and one heckuva time. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are soldiers of the empire who become fortune seeking adventurers in John Huston's film based on Rudyard Kipling's Yarn.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2233 in DVD
- Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
- Released on: 1997-11-19
- Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, HiFi Sound, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
- Running time: 129 minutes
Editorial Reviews
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A 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
