Top billed cast

1. 

   Sean Connery

   Daniel Dravot

2. 

   Michael Caine

   Peachy Carnehan

3. 

   Christopher Plummer

   Rudyard Kipling

4. 

   Saeed Jaffrey

   Billy Fish

5. 

   Doghmi Larbi

   Ootah

6. 

   Jack May

   District Commissioner

7. 

   Karroom Ben Bouih

   Kafu Selim

8. 

   Mohammad Shamsi

   Babu

9. 

   Albert Moses

   Ghulam

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2014-08-28

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 de...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$8,000,000.00

Revenue
$12,678.00

Keywords

• journalist
• gold
• treasure
• robbery
• cheating
• coronation
• freemason
• con man
• british army
• british empire
• friends
• soldier
• king
• battle
• ruler
• based on short story
• 19th century
• british raj