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Directed by | John Huston |
Written by | John Huston Gladys Hill |
Based on | The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling |
Produced by | John Foreman |
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Cinematography | Oswald Morris |
Edited by | Russell Lloyd |
Music by | Maurice Jarre |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
Countries | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $8.5 million[2] |
Box office | $11 million[3] |
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film adapted from Rudyard Kipling's 1888 novella. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator). 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 and end up in faraway Kafiristan, where one is taken for a god and made their king.