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| Director: John Huston
Actors: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Doghmi Larbi
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Rating:  138 reviews
Sales Rank: 5526
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Hifi Sound, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 129 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6304457367
UPC: 012569091238
EAN: 9786304457368
ASIN: 6304457367
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1975
Release Date: May 8, 2001
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 The best Guy Movie. Ever. November 17, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Also a great movie in it's own right, good for anyone, and once you realize it's a story by Rudyard Kipling, you think it's time to go back and re-read the Jungle Book to see what you may have missed. But with Sean Connery and Michael Caine? Easily the finest Man's Movie. Ever.
 A Terrible film! March 27, 2004
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This is a terrible movie! I can't believe that a director as respectable as the great John Huston would make something this ridiculous. This film is the epitomy of the idea of "The White Man's Burden." This film shows Eastern cultures to be cruel, uncivilized, and lack intelligence. I went into this film thinking it would be a great adventure. Instead, at the end I felt like vomiting! Being an Indian and an American; I felt very offended that they were basically glorifying Alexander the "Tyrant" as a "god." I fail to understand why a man like Rudyard Kipling is considered a great writer. I wish I could give this NO STARS. John, I'll pretend you never made this film.
Excellent Adventure Film December 5, 2004
Julius Victor (Virginia)
Excellent adventure film based on a fantasic short story.Great direction, great visuals and four great actors(Caine, Connery, Jeffery and Plummer).
As has been pointed out, The Man Who Would Be King, is indeed in some ways a parable about imperialism. What it is not,thankfully, is a politically correct apologist piece that glorifies native populations and villifies Westerners. Indeed, The Man Who Would Be King does a great job at illustrating the brutality and backwardness of pre-modern men and tribal society, while at the same time showing the more calculated violence and organization of western civilization. It also shows the positives and negatives of imperial expansion into regions untouched by modernity. From the introduction of Martini-Henry rifles and western military organization, to the beginnings of infrastructure building and liberal governance, John Houston's The Man Who Would Be King gives us far more complex and human look into the characters of Peachy Carnehan and Daniel Dravot than Kipling's story.One cannot help but like Peachey and Daniel. Even though they may be seem to be vagabond "detriments" in the increasingly westernized Colonial India, they are larger than life supermen when compared to the simple, wretched creatures that inhabit their short-lived empire in Kafiristan. All in all, TMWBK is a rousing and entertaining large scale epic that is inspiring and tragic all at once.
"Me & Peachy, we don't kill easy!" December 17, 2004
The JuRK (Our Vast, Cultural Desert)
The story goes that John Huston wanted to film THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING in the 1950s with Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart, but the actors died before the project could get started.
When Huston tried again in the 1970s, the reigning buddy team was Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Newman's response: "They're Englishmen, get Sean Connery and Michael Caine."
Michael Caine has said that this was his favorite film of his own work, the one that "will still be around when I'm gone."
And this was the first movie I saw where I saw Sean Connery and NEVER ONCE thought of James Bond. They really do make these characters live and breath--and they make them their own.
In both Caine's autobiography and Huston's biography, John Huston would call Caine and Connery by their characters' names to his dying day, even as the actors visited Huston on his deathbed.
This is one of my favorites, a grand, exotic adventure with literary roots and great performances from two of the world's biggest movie stars.
I just discovered this gem of a film November 21, 2006
Monkdude (Hampton, VA)
I saw this DVD at [...] and thought it was worth a try given the great cast. I had never even heard of this film before, but I gotta say it is one of the best adventure movies I have ever seen. It isn't dated in the least and the acting is great (Caine and Connery have great chemistry). What is most amazing is that the humor still works today. Even though this DVD is a flipper (where is the special edition?), it is still worth buying. I need to start picking up more films on a whim.
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