

The Man Who Would Be King
Adventure in all its glory!
Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $8M
- Box office
- $12.7K
- Language
- Arabic
- journalist
- gold
- treasure
- robbery
- cheating
- coronation
- freemason
- con man
- british army
- british empire
- friends
- soldier
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG17 Dec 1975
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG3 Dec 1975
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical143 Dec 1975
CzechiaCZ
- Physical24 May 1999
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical115 Mar 1976
FinlandFI
- PhysicalK-163 Dec 1975
FranceFR
- TheatricalU21 Apr 1976
- TVParamount Network5 Nov 2025
- TVParamount Network23 Nov 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1217 Dec 1975
GreeceGR
- TheatricalPG26 Dec 1975
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG9 Apr 1976
ItalyIT
- Theatrical17 Mar 1976
JapanJP
- TheatricalG12 Jun 1976
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The Man Who Would Be King was released on 3 December 1975.
Audience reviews
3- J9/10
John Chard
8/28/2014
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 starr…
- F10/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
6/20/2023
**A magnificent adventure film that adapts to the cinema a short story by Rudyard Kipling about greed, and the price that can be paid for it.** Born in India, Rudyard Kipling is one of the most distinguished British writers of the late 19th century, and perhaps one of the most prolific. Seeing a list of his written work is an exercise in patience, and if we think that he wrote it all in sunlight or gas and using a…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/2/2025
"Danny" (Sean Connery) and "Peachy" (Michael Caine) are a pair of chancers at the height of the Raj in British India, who decide that they need to go make their fortune. Thanks to a little help from Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer), they learn of the land of Kafiristan up on the Hindu Kush where the map makers have yet to arrive. Using all of their wits and guile, the pair head north and eventually find themselv…
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