The Man Who Would Be King (film)
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 Technicolor adventure film adapted from the 1888 Rudyard Kipling novella of the same name. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling.
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The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 Technicolor adventure film adapted from the 1888 Rudyard Kipling novella of the same name. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling. The film follows two rogue ex-soldiers, former non-commissioned officers in the British Army, who set off from late 19th-century British India in search of adventure. They end up in faraway Kafiristan, where one is taken for a god and made their king. In a comic relief turn, Carnehan obliquely blackmails the commissioner in order to avoid deportation. The two sign a contract pledging mutual loyalty and forswearing drink and women, the two set off on an epic overland journey north beyond the Khyber Pass. They chance upon a Gurkha soldier, Billy Fish, the sole survivor of a years-before British expedition. Finally, nobody is left to stand in their way and they are summoned to the holy city of Sikandergul by the high priest of the region.
When they try to grab the English name in the name of the impostors, they realise he is only human in name and try to kiss him. He is terrified that the touch of a god means death, but when he tries to kiss her, she bites his cheek to make him bleed. When she is brought to him, she reluctantly agrees to marry him in order for him to leave the people an heir. He snows on the locals, however, is also struck by the beauty of a girl called Roxana, the wife of Alexander’s wife, and cancels their pact to avoid women, saying he will marry her in order to marry her. When the people realise that he is a god, he is forced to kill her and she is taken to the hospital, where she dies. He then goes on to have a child with a local girl, who is later found to be the love of his life, and they marry. They then leave with as much loot as they can carry as soon as the mountain passes.
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