The Man Who Would Be King
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
December 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Huston had the biggest popular success of his late career with this rip-roaring adventure story, which teamed Sean Connery and Michael Caine as a pair of raffish, conquest-mad British imperialists.
Huston had the biggest popular success of his late career with this rip-roaring adventure story, which paired Sean Connery and Michael Caine as two raffish decommissioned British military men set on making their way to a far-flung Middle Eastern province and convincing the natives to treat them as gods. They succeed, of course, at which point the movie—both lovingly channeling and deviously winking at the Rudyard Kipling novella on which it’s based—transforms into a giddy parody of British imperialism. Christopher Plummer is on hand to give a spot-on young Kipling impression in the opening and closing scenes.
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