Starring:
Sean Connery - Daniel Dravot
Michael Caine - Peachy Carnehan
Christopher Plummer - Rudyard Kipling
Saeed Jaffrey - Billy Fish
Albert Moses - Ghulam
Shakira Caine - Roxanne
Director:
John Huston (The Maltese Falcon; The African Queen)
Synopsis:
Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set
themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where no white man has
set foot since Alexander.
Review:
Michael Caine & Sean Connery are the almost perfect on screen duo. Both men are very underrated for their comedic abilities & they feed perfectly off one another. You add in the wide range of their abilities, several mood changes & a quite epic climax & this has become one of my new favourite movies of all time. Based on a true story, it is essentially a 2 man show because the majority of the other actors are all hired extra's from the country it was filmed in, including the towns high priest. Christopher Plummer is involved but only slightly as he is being told the story by Michael Caine at the beginning & then doesn't appear again until the end. Also stars Michael Caine's wife Shakira as the princess that Dravot plans to make his wife. I have very little bad to say about this film, there are some obvious points like the outrageous fight scene at the end, Connery's last on screen scene & the fake looking blood as most 60's & 70's films had.
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
Flixster: 88%
95%
Lead Acting: 15/15
Supporting Cast: 12/15
Plot: 10/10
Compared To The Genre: 10/10
Cinematography: 18/20
Intrigue: 20/20
Extra: 10/10
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