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- The Man Who Would Be King - Movie 1975 - Part 7 of 9 - Daniel Dravot crowned High King of Khafiristan. - The Man Who Would Be King (film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_%28film%29 The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling story of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery as Daniel Dravot, Michael Caine as Peachey Carnehan, Saeed Jaffrey as Billy Fish , and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the story's anonymous narrator). The Kipling story tells the tale of two rogue British ex-soldiers who set off from 19th century British India in search of adventure, and end up as kings of Kafiristan. The story is believed to have been inspired by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan during the period of the Great Game between Imperial Russia and the British Empire. Shot on location in Morocco, Huston had planned to make the film since the 1950's: originally with Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable, then Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, and then Robert Redford and Paul Newman — Newman suggested Connery and Caine. Like much of his writing, Kipling's original story is overtly imperialist; in Huston's telling, both East and West have their faults and virtues. In a retrospective review, the New York Times remarked "Gloriously old-fashioned in its approach -- right down to the characters' politically incorrect attitudes toward anyone who isn't one hundred per cent British -- The Man Who Would Be King is pure entertainment in the grand tradition of Gunga Din." Michael Caine has maintained that if any film of his is remembered after his death, it would be The Man Who Would Be King because it is the sort of film that everyone says, even when the film came out, "No-one makes pictures like this any more." Although the film was shot in North Africa, the ethnic clothing and dancers in the background are clearly not Middle Eastern, but of Central Asian origin. Maurice Jarre scored the film and invited classical Indian musicians to participate in the recording sessions with a traditional European symphony, blending the musical styles for the melodies, based around the hymn "The Moreen", (although the lyrics are those of Reginald Heber's "The Son of God Goes Forth to War"), which figures in the plot. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are heard singing on the LP and CD of the film. - Synopsis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_%28film%29#Synopsis - Miscellanea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_%28film%29#Miscellanea - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King The Man Who Would Be King (1888) is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It is about two British adventurers in British India, who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan. The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the "white Rajah" of Sarawak in Borneo, and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who claimed the title Prince of Ghor. The story was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (Volume Five of the Indian Railway Library, published by Wheelers of Allahabad in 1888). It also appeared in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories in 1895, and in numerous later editions of that collection. - The Man Who Would Be King (1975) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/ Director: John Huston Writers: John Huston (screenplay) Gladys Hill (screenplay) Rudyard Kipling (story) 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 The Blue Dancers of Goulamine - Dancers Shakira Caine - Roxanne Nadia Atbib - Dancer (uncredited) Yvonne Ocampo - Dancer (uncredited) Gurmuks Singh - Sikh Soldier (uncredited) Kimat Singh - Sikh Soldier (uncredited) -
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