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John Huston. Director, Screenplay. Gladys Hill. Screenplay. Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on June 20, 2023. 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.
The Man Who Would Be King is een Brits-Amerikaanse avonturenfilm uit 1975.Het plot is gebaseerd op het verhaal De man die koning wilde worden van de Britse schrijver Rudyard Kipling.Het verhaal speelt zich af tegen de achtergrond van The Great Game, de strijd tussen het Britse Rijk en het Keizerrijk Rusland om de macht in Centraal-Azië.. De film is geregisseerd door John Huston.
In 1857, the soldiers enlisted by the East India Company rebelled. The British suppressed the rebellion, committing horrific atrocities in the process. As a result of the revolt, the British Crown assumed direct control of India. The rebellion was still very much part of the public consciousness when Kipling wrote “The Man Who Would Be King ...
The Man Who Would Be King. " The Man Who Would Be King " (1888, en español: El hombre que pudo ser rey) es un cuento publicado por Rudyard Kipling acerca de dos aventureros en la época del Raj británico, quienes se convirtieron en reyes de Kafiristán, una remota parte de Afganistán. La misma fue publicada por primera vez en The Phantom ...
The Man Who Would Be King is a film directed by John Huston with Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey .... Year: 1975. Original title: The Man Who Would Be King. Synopsis: The film begins with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his office, his privacy is broken by the arrival of a dishevelled old acquaintance and fellow Freemason, Peachy Carnahan ...
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film, directed by John Huston and starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer, about the glorious and awful sides of European Imperialism.It follows Daniel Dravot (Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Caine), two former non-commissioned officers of the British Raj, on a journey into the wilds beyond the Khyber Pass and into the lands of Kafiristan ...
Josiah Harlan, the first American to set foot in Afghanistan, would become the model for Kipling’s ‘The Man Who Would be King’, but the true story of his life is stranger than fiction. A soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist and writer, Harlan set off into the wilds of Central Asia after a failed love affair in 1820.
