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The Man Who Would Be King

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starring: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Doghmi Larbi directed by: Ed Apfel, John Huston, Lawrence Tetenbaum See Larger Image List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $17.49 You Save: $2.49 (12%) as of 03/18/2010 08:32 EDT Used Price: $13.75 Third Party New Price: $12.98 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: CONNERY,SEAN DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 2 EAN: 9786304698648 Feature: One of the all-time greats! Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in Rudyard Kipling's tale of British sergeants out to bluff and bully their way to wealth in remote Kafiristan. Directed by the legendary John Huston. Year: 1975Running Time: 129 min. System Requirements: Starring: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer; Director: John Huston; Special Features:Production Notes, Theatrica Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, HiFi Sound, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 079073303X Item Dimensions: 25 Label: Warner Home Video Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: 858 Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 19, 1997 Running Time: 129 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1975 Features: One of the all-time greats! Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in Rudyard Kipling's tale of British sergeants out to bluff and bully their way to wealth in remote Kafiristan. Directed by the legendary John Huston. Year: 1975Running Time: 129 min. System Requirements: Starring: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer; Director: John Huston; Special Features:Production Notes, Theatrica Related Items: The Wind and the Lion Zulu Zulu Dawn Robin and Marian Breaker Morant see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Two soldiers of fortune leave 19th century India for the primitive land of Kafiristan where they plan to become kings. Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure Rating: PG Release Date: 18-NOV-1997 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com essential video: 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. --Jim Emerson Amazon.com: 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. --Jim Emerson Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - movie-classic/dvd-a joke i remember seeing this movie in washington,D.C when i was a kid. i will never forget how amazing it was. now you can't find a good version of this film anywhere. now there is blu-ray..no "man who would be king". same old tired dvd with poor sound quality and weak visuals. please bring it back to the movie theatre or put it on blu-ray..thank you. Rating: - Faulty DVD I ordered this DVD and only got a part of it....it ended on Chapeter 21...what's up? It was disappointing not to get a full DVD of what I ordered; it had all types od trailers... Rating: - The Man who Would be King A great story with the best cast imaginable. One of the great films by John Houston. Rating: - The danger of losing one's head: a cultural and psychological perspective This review is in response to a one-star submittal on March 26, 2004. It contains SPOILERS, so you've been warned. My major interest is cultural anthropology, and there is no civilization so cruel as to lack civility nor one so civil as to hide its own form of cruelty. Watch Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence" as a case in point. However, that's not the focus of this film; to make it so reveals a literal-mindedness that can only be acquired in today's "liberal" universities who turn ... Read More Rating: - A Crowning Achievement Hoping for riches beyond belief, two British officers set off into the blank spots on the map with only a few crates of guns and the willpower to become more. They have a plan, too, and it involves creating a powerbase that will make them rich beyond their meager means. When they find themselves surrounded by gold and thought to be the rightful heirs of alexander the Great's riches, however, the two find themselves caught in a golden web that promises to either make them god-men or make them deadmen. ... Read More see more

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