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.
Genres
Adventure, Drama
Studio
Persky-Bright Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Man Who Would Be King performed
Budget
$8.0M
Worldwide Gross
$12,678
Gross Profit
−$8.0M
Return
0.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~33/67, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Adventure) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Daniel Dravot
Sean Connery
Daniel Dravot
Peachy Carnehan
Michael Caine
Peachy Carnehan
Rudyard Kipling
Christopher Plummer
Rudyard Kipling
Billy Fish
Saeed Jaffrey
Billy Fish
Ootah
Doghmi Larbi
Ootah
District Commissioner
Jack May
District Commissioner
Kafu Selim
Karroom Ben Bouih
Kafu Selim
Babu
Mohammad Shamsi
Babu
Ghulam
Albert Moses
Ghulam
Mulvaney
Paul Antrim
Mulvaney
Officer
Graham Acres
Officer
Roxanne
Shakira Caine
Roxanne
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