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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 2 EAN: 9786304698648 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 630469864X Item Dimensions: Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: D858D Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 19, 1997 Running Time: 129 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1975 Editorial Review: Product Description: One of the all-time greats! Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in Rudyard Kipling's tale of British sergeants out to bluff and bully their way to wealth in remote Kafiristan. Directed by the legendary John Huston. Year: 1975Running Time: 129 min.System Requirements:Starring: Sean Connery Michael Caine Christopher Plummer; Director: John Huston; Special Features:Production Notes Theatrical Trailer Featurette Interactive Menus; Video Format: Widescreen 2.35:1 aspect ratio Enhanced for 16x9 TVs; Subtitles: French Spanish English; Audio Tracks: English: Dolby Digital Mono; # Discs: 1; Produced by John Foreman; written by John Huston Gladys Hill Rudy; running time of 129 minutes; Closed Captioned.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 012569085824 Amazon.com essential video: A grandly entertaining, old-fashioned adventure based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, The Man Who Would Be King 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 (The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen) 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. --Jim Emerson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - There Is A GodThis is by far the best film to come out of a very experimental decade. Instead, this is a classic of traditional film-making, by a master of Hollywood drama. It is with films like this that one wants to say, "they don't make 'em like this anymore." Although the acting is, indeed, flawless and exhilarating as others have noted, it is finally the totality of the film that is so outstanding. The story, of course, is brilliantly conceived by Kipling, filled with irony and pathos, a superb celebration ... Read More Rating: - Alexander, Masons and John HustonOriginally intended to be a project with Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart, then later Paul Newman and Robert Redford -- Newman suggesting Connery & Caine to Huston. A true classic of high adventure. Also starring Christopher Plummer as Rudyard Kipling. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are incredible as former members of Her Majesty's forces turned rogues Daniel Dravit and Peachy Carnnihan. Rating: - English Humor at its Finest.This movie is probably the greatest "buddy film" of all time. Michael and Sean make a perfect dynamic duo. Their combined natural acting abilities along with the catchy dialogue make for a hilarious adventure. Rating: - Confuse 'em AllThis is one of my favorite films of all time. A great adventure of two not so unlikely late 19th century ex-British Army Sargeants at large in British India. But what in that time of British Empire could both rogues and gentry have in common? The answer is Freemasonry. But these rogues rise to greatness, almost sidelining their personal greed and well, rogueishness. But they never figured on being trumpted by primitive superstition. So well cast and directed, a John Huston masterpiece. ... Read More Rating: - What great fun!This is without doubt, one of the finest adventure movies ever made! It fully deserves a remastering. The acting, humor, cinematography and writing are fantastic. |
