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The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Directed by John Huston
“Adventure in all its glory!”
Adventure, Drama · 2h 09m
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.
Cast
Sean Connery
Daniel Dravot
Michael Caine
Peachy Carnehan
Christopher Plummer
Rudyard Kipling
Saeed Jaffrey
Billy Fish
Doghmi Larbi
Ootah
Jack May
District Commissioner
K
Karroom Ben Bouih
Kafu Selim
M
Mohammad Shamsi
Babu
Albert Moses
Ghulam
P
Paul Antrim
Mulvaney
G
Graham Acres
Officer
Shakira Caine
Roxanne
Crew
- Director
- John Huston
- Screenplay
- Gladys Hill, John Huston
- Director of Photography
- Oswald Morris
- Original Music Composer
- Maurice Jarre
- Editor
- Russell Lloyd
- Producer
- John Foreman
Details
- Release date
- 1975-12-03
- Runtime
- 2h 09m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English, Urdu
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Persky-Bright Productions, Devon/Persky-Bright, Columbia Pictures
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Box office
- $12,678