The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
 Veteran
director John Huston had wanted to film this Rudyard Kipling story
since the 1940s, initially planning it as a Clark Gable/Humphrey
Bogart vehicle.
30 years on and into the breach step the two greatest British
movie stars of their generation as the over ambitious soldiers
attempting to conquer their own slice of the Raj by conning the
locals into believing Connery is a god.
The array of talent doesn't disappoint and the supporting cast
raise their game accordingly, especially Saeed Jaffrey as a
stranded Ghurkha the duo encounter in the mountains, and a 103
year old Karroom Ben Bouih in his first and only screen appearance
as the high priest Kafu Salim.
An intelligent meditation on power which would be considered as
important as the director's much revered Treasure Of The Sierra
Madre - if it wasn't so much fun.
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