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Written by John Chard on Thu Aug 28 2014
From the upper echelon of boys own adventures comes - The Man Who Would Be King!
Two ex-servicemen are lolling around colonial India, it's just the start of a journey that will see them in Kafiristan. Here the mountain dwellers believe the rouge white fellows to be Gods, and thus things are about to get very interesting indeed.
Written by master writer Rudyard Kipling, directed by behemoth John Huston and starring British legends Sean Connery & Michael Caine, there really isn't any way this film could have failed - sure enough the picture exudes a classy structure that is coupled with def...
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12678.00
Keywords
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- gold
- treasure
- robbery
- cheating
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- con man
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- friends
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- battle
- ruler
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