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The Man Who Would Be King (Widescreen) | 
| Director: John Huston
Actors: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Doghmi Larbi
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 24.98
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Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 2271
Format: Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: WARD858D
ISBN: 630469864X
UPC: 012569085824
EAN: 9786304698648
ASIN: 630469864X
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1975
Release Date: November 18, 1997
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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Amazon.com Essential Video
A grandly entertaining, old-fashioned adventure based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, iThe Man Who Would Be King/i is the kind of rousing epic about which people said, even in 1975, "Wow! They don't make 'em like that anymore!" When director John Huston (iThe Maltese Falcon/i, iThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre/i, iThe African Queen/i) first started trying to make the film, with Gable and Bogart, the project was derailed by the latter's death. It was a few decades before Huston was able to finally realize his dream movie--and with an unimprovable cast. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are, respectively, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, a pair of lovably roguish British soldiers who set out to make their fortunes by conning the priests of remote Kafiristan into making them kings. It's a rollicking tale, an epic satire of imperialism, and the good-natured repartee shared by Caine and Connery is pure gold. In today's screen adventures, humor is usually imposed on the material by a writer or director trying to make some kind of cleverly self-aware comment ("Hey, we know it's a movie!"), but that sort of jokiness can create so much ironic distance that it pushes the audience right out of the picture. Huston lets the humor emerge naturally from the characters, for whom we wind up caring more deeply than we ever expected. The digital video disc includes a wonderful documentary on the making of the film. i--Jim Emerson/i
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| Customer Reviews: Read 76 more reviews...
 I WILL PUT IT SIMPLY June 8, 2004
Robert Kahn (Illinois)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
BUY THIS MOVIEpI will give you three reasons why:br1) Sean Connery: one of the best actors. Period.br2) Michael Caine: another of the best. And he looks good in that hat.br3) Kipling: you just can't beat that for a writer.pARE WE CLEAR?
 A Terrible film! March 27, 2004
0 out of 18 found this review helpful
This is a terrible movie! I can't believe that a director as respectable as the great John Huston would make something this ridiculous. This film is the epitomy of the idea of The White Man's Burden. This film shows Eastern cultures to be cruel, uncivilized, and lack intelligence. I went into this film thinking it would be a great adventure. Instead, at the end I felt like vomiting! Being an Indian and an American; I felt very offended that they were basically glorifying Alexander the Tyrant as a god. I fail to understand why a man like Rudyard Kipling is considered a great writer. I wish I could give this NO STARS. John, I'll pretend you never made this film.
 Issues with quality of DVD transfer March 19, 2004
M. Findlay (Whittier, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
My experience deals with the quality of this DVD.brI love the movie. Not too politically correct, but enjoyable, nevertheless.pBut, the widescreen movie has to be flipped over half way through to see the last part of the movie. I just sold my laser disk player, and have NEVER had to flip a DVD.pThe least enjoyable feature of this film is a grainy, almost pixelated appearance. The colors are not rich and looks like the movie was filmed on grainy film. I assume the transfer to a digital format was done with poor compression, or else the producers transferred from a very old copy of the film. pUnless you really want this DVD, wait and hope for a new version.
 Marvelous and tragic Kipling romp/moral tale March 6, 2004
Peggy Vincent (Oakland, CA)
Sean Connery and Michael Caine are beautifully cast in this old-timey adventure movie, set in remote Kafiristan. They play a pair of rogues in the grand tradition of epic movies in this satire of British Imperialism. It's very, very funny, and also very sad: a tale that proves the old adage Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. What begins as a romp ends as a tragedy.
"Now, brother, how can we divide ... March 3, 2004
Professor Joseph L. McCauley (Austria+Texas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
... three Afghans from two donkeys?" pGreat Kipling story (the newspaper man plays Rudyard) played to the hilt, completely convincingly, by Connery and Caine. Who but two Englishmen of their caliber could play Kipling anyway!?pHistorically interesting is that Kafiristan (Nuristan), or Kafiri-land, remained pagan and nonMuslim until the late nineteenth century. For information about the region and people, some of whom apparently remain non Muslim and speak the original language, see http://users.sedona.net/~strand/. Some writers on the web speculate that the former Kafiri, who speak an an extremely old Indo-Iranian language, may be the oldest 'nonmigratory' branch of the Indo-Germanic peoples. That the people are tall, about a third are blond/blue-eyed, is also claimed and is not reflected in the entertaining film.
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