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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.
1975 · Directed by John Huston · 129 min · Adventure · Drama · 9 frames
Tagline
Adventure in all its glory!
Crew
- Screenplay: John Huston, Gladys Hill
- Cinematography: Oswald Morris
- Edited by: Russell Lloyd
- Music: Maurice Jarre
- Production design: Alexandre Trauner
- Produced by: John Foreman
Cast
- Sean Connery as Daniel Dravot
- Michael Caine as Peachy Carnehan
- Christopher Plummer as Rudyard Kipling
- Saeed Jaffrey as Billy Fish
- Doghmi Larbi as Ootah
- Jack May as District Commissioner
- Karroom Ben Bouih as Kafu Selim
- Mohammad Shamsi as Babu
- Albert Moses as Ghulam
- Paul Antrim as Mulvaney
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Arabic, English, Urdu
- Studios: Persky-Bright Productions, Devon/Persky-Bright, Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Box office: $12,678
- Themes: journalist, gold, treasure, robbery, cheating, coronation, freemason, con man, british army, british empire
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