moonfleet

I think the "something special" is in TMWWBK, the derision about imperialism, the link of freemasonry, their laugh that makes the mountain "ground"(sorry, too lazy to look in dictionnary, I hope it's understendable!), the way they teach the "great game of war" to the villages people, and of course, this marvelous ending ....

Moon.

"Very difficult !" "Craazy!"

Steve Crook

Or In My Humble Opinion - although people that use it like that are rarely humble.
Or they could say IMVHO - In My Very Humble Opinion, in which case they're even less likely to be very humble

Steve

Steve Crook

It was the interplay between them that makes it a great film

Steve

LieutenantJohn

From the upper echelon of boys own adventures comes.....,

The Man Who Would Be King

Two ex servicemen are lolling around colonial India, it's just the start of a journey that will see them in Kafiristan. Here the mountain dwellers believe the rouge white fellows to be Gods, and thus things are about to get very interesting indeed.

Written by master writer Rudyard Kipling, directed by behemoth John Huston, and starring British legends Sean Connery & Michael Caine, there really isn't any way this film could have failed, sure enough the picture exudes a classy structure that is coupled with deftly smart writing. The Man Who Would Be King was a project that John Huston had coveted for many a year {decade}, as far back as the 40s he was looking to adapt the Kipling short with Humphrey Bogart & Clark Gable in the leads, some time after it was mooted that he fancied Peter O'Toole & Richard Burton to play Messrs Dravot & Carnehan. Fast forward to 1975 and the eventual pairing of Caine & Connery now looks like a masterstroke of casting, and it really is impossible to imagine anyone else in the roles of the amoral scavenger duo of the piece, in short, the wait for the film was indeed worth it.

That the film is known as an adventure genre staple is a given, but it should be noted that in amongst its delightful fusion of fantasy and swashbuckling values, lies wonderful characterisation, cheeky sly glances at the power crazy, imperialism, greed, and pulsing a political beat. It's a smashing, highly entertaining picture that stands up really well ever more today in this new millennium age, i mean it's got Caine & Connery playing rapscallions for GODS sake !.

8/10

moonfleet

In my first view of this film, I didn't ever notice that Carnehan stole the watch a the station, it's fast (as a stealing must be !)
The scene with the "big" indian eating a watermelon, whom Carnehan throw out of the train, under Kipling's amazed face is very funny !!

Moon.

"Very difficult !" "Craazy!"