Watch: The Man Who Would Be King 1975 123movies, Full Movie Online – This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right. Kipling is seen as a character that was there at the beginning, and at the end of this glorious tale..
Plot: A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as “godlike” rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
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King Huston
This movie seems to have been made by a young man.It took the adventure genre to its peak ( it was to be cheapened by Spielberg in the eighties with I.Jones and co).The screenplay is marvelous,now funny ,now dramatic,now parodic ,now epic.John Huston runs the whole gamut of emotion,suspense and humor.Abetted by two peerless actors,he tells us a tale so weird that only a first-rate director could have pulled it off. A metaphor on the power,on man’s conceit (wasn’t it the case for such early gems as “Sierra Madre” or late masterpieces like “the dead”?),a conceit that knows no bounds.Actually,Connery’s character doesn’t want to be a king,he wants to be adored and worshipped as a God.(In a famous scene,he asks Caine to bow low before him;it’s comic admittedly,but it’s a dark spooky humor:in a nutshell,the “Divinity” is losing His mind) Comedy and tragedy walk hand in hand is this subtile work.See how Connery’s imposture is being found.Then we have the sublime final confrontation Connery/Caine ,when the former is to be executed.It’s difficult to hold back your tears! And as for the very end of the movie,when Caine returns,it’s more terrifying than the whole of “the exorcist”.”Vanity of vanities,all is vanity” Huston seems to whisper in the gloom.
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 9 min (129 min)
Budget 8000000
Revenue 12678
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Adventure, History, War
Director John Huston
Writer John Huston, Gladys Hill, Rudyard Kipling
Actors Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix 4-Track Stereo
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor (uncredited)
Film Length 3,525 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic) (filmed in) (as Panavision®)
Printed Film Format 35 mm