The Man Who Would Be King

Name: The Man Who Would Be King
Genre: Adventure
Released: December 16, 1975
Duration: 129 min
Rating: 91
Cast: Albert Moses, Christopher Plummer, Doghmi Larbi, Jack May, Karroom Ben Bouih

1975

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Allied Artists Pictures | Release Date: December 16, 1975 | PG

Starring: Albert Moses, Christopher Plummer, Doghmi Larbi, Jack May, Karroom Ben Bouih, Michael Caine, Mohammad Shamsi, Paul Antrim, Saeed Jaffrey, Sean Connery

Summary: Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

Director: John Huston

Genre(s): Adventure

Rating: PG

Runtime: 129 min

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Roger Ebert

John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King is swashbuckling adventure, pure and simple, from the hand of a master. It's unabashed and thrilling and fun. Read full review

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Charles Taylor

The triumph of the movie isn't just Huston's realization of a longtime dream to bring the Kipling story to the screen but the way he both honors classical movie tradition and brings it forward into a new era. Read full review

Vincent Canby

The movie, which was shot in Morocco, looks lovely and remote (how did we ever once settle for those black-and-white Hollywood hills?) and has just enough romantic nonsense in it to enchant the child in each of us. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The film has genuine wit, an appealing sense of grandeur, and very little of the overt "philosophizing" that marred much of Huston's previous work. His eye for the strong, clear lines of landscape had never been sharper, and Oswald Morris's photography has a fine sun-saturated brilliance. Read full review

Desmond Ryan

The way that power and wealth corrupt the spirit is a recurring theme in Huston's work, and it is served up here in a hugely entertaining fashion. [17 Mar 1995, p.11]

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Connery and Caine (both excellent) become classic Huston overreachers, and echoes of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Moby Dick permeate the mythic yarn. Read full review

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Whether it was the intention of John Huston or not, the tale of action and adventure is a too-broad comedy, mostly due to the poor performance of Michael Caine. Read full review

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gracjanski

Sep 18, 2022

Overrated movie. The story is not realistic, its entertaining for the masses. The movie has some humour parts, sometimes it was good, sometimes childish. Good acting of course, you have 3 stars here. And great pictures with beautiful landscapes.

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