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The Man Who Would Be King

Adventure in all its glory!

7.5(745)19752h 9m5

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

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

John Huston

Produced in

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

Frequently asked questions

The Man Who Would Be King was released on 3 December 1975.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    8/28/2014

    9/10

    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…

  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    6/20/2023

    10/10

    **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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    1/2/2025

    7/10

    "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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