The Man Who Would Be King
(1975)
Rusty: Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Russell Lloyd)
Academy Award for Best Production Design
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (John Huston, Gladys Hill)
Golden Globe Award for Best Original ScoreAward details: (details at IMDb)
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The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling short story of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling. The film follows two rogue ex-non-commissioned officers of the Indian Army who set off from late 19th-century British India in search of adventure and end up as kings of Kafiristan.