The Man Who Would Be King
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1975: Directed by John Huston Huston was the writer and/or director and/or acted in many very famous films including 1941: Sergeant York, The Maltese Falcon, 1948: Key Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1951: The African Queen, 1960: The Unforgiven, 1966: Night of the Iguana, 1974: Chinatown (actor, as Noah Cross), 1985: Prizzi's Honor. But, he also made some dogs. Most of Huston's great films could be characterized as film noir. Film Noir is literally, “black film.” A type of film first made in the United States during and after World War II, characterized by frequent scenes with dark, shadowy lighting; (usually) urban settings; characters motivated by selfishness, greed, cruelty, ambition, and lust; and characters willing to lie, frame, double-cross, and kill or have others killed. The moods of such films tend to be embittered, depressed, cynical, or fatalistic and their plots compressed and convoluted. Read more about film noir here. Starring: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer This one makes nearly everyone's list of the best several hundred movies of all time. It's based on a Rudyard Kipling short story. You will see that while there are a great many changes between the story and the film script most of the central ideas and many of the best bits of dialogue are directly from Kipling. It was a project that director Huston wanted to do for a long time. He originally planned to cast Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart in the lead roles. He considered several other pairs before coming up with Connery and Caine. |
