Review of The Man Who Would Be King (1975) by Brian R — 01 Aug 2009
"The Man Who Would Be King" drips with Kipling's typical jingoism, but it's still a winning, woolly yarn. Caine and Connery have a great comic rapport as two different types of man's men who strike off into the frontier of British India with rakish, resourceful charm and child-like guile.
Huston keeps the action clipping along in a manner reminiscent of the adventures of another pair of overgrown colonial brats ("The African Queen"), though this one is considerably darker and brutally casual in its depiction of the Victorian pith helmet play-acting that upended entire cultures.
Still, imperialism has never seemed so genially entertaining.
This review of The Man Who Would Be King (1975) was written by Brian R on 01 Aug 2009.
The Man Who Would Be King has generally received very positive reviews.
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