Review of The Man Who Would Be King (1975) by Spencer P — 18 Jul 2018

Good old fashioned adventure film after a lesser known Rudyard Kipling story. Two British soldiers decide to create an empire on their own by traveling from India into the wild Afghan mountains, soon finding traces of Alexander the great.

There is plenty to see here, two excellent leading men with Connery and Caine, gorgeous landscapes and buildings as well as bizarre local rituals make for a very entertaining, sometimes funny, often brutal ride, even if the heroes are cocky and still believe in making the world a better place just by being British.

You see their eventual downfall coming but still cheer for them of course. Gladly, the tragic ending doesn't feel forced but as the only possible outcome of imperial feeling of superiority.