The Man Who Would Be King

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever.

Genre : AdventureDrama

Runtime : 129 mins

Release Date : 1975-12-03

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From the upper echelon of boys own adventures comes - The Man Who Would Be King! Two ex-servicemen are lolling around colonial India, it's just the start of a journey that will see them in Kafiristan. Here the mountain dwellers believe the rouge white fellows to be Gods, and thus things are abou...

**A magnificent adventure film that adapts to the cinema a short story by Rudyard Kipling about greed, and the price that can be paid for it.** Born in India, Rudyard Kipling is one of the most distinguished British writers of the late 19th century, and perhaps one of the most prolific. Seeing a...

"Danny" (Sean Connery) and "Peachy" (Michael Caine) are a pair of chancers at the height of the Raj in British India, who decide that they need to go make their fortune. Thanks to a little help from Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer), they learn of the land of Kafiristan up on the Hindu Kush whe...

Cast

Sean Connery

(Daniel Dravot)

Michael Caine

(Peachy Carnehan)

Christopher Plummer

(Rudyard Kipling)

Saeed Jaffrey

(Billy Fish)

Doghmi Larbi

(Ootah)

Jack May

(District Commissioner)

Karroom Ben Bouih

(Kafu Selim)

Mohammad Shamsi

(Babu)

Albert Moses

(Ghulam)

Paul Antrim

(Mulvaney)

Graham Acres

(Officer)

Shakira Caine

(Roxanne)

Nadia Atbib

(Dancer (uncredited))

Yvonne Ocampo