You realize this film is comedic about 15 minutes in. Michael Caine and Sean Connery are blackmailing a military official but so obtusely that it takes a moment to realize that you're being kidded with. And yet it's more than a comedy. It's also a serious story about a very close friendship between two British soldiers, bored with their life, who decide to take off to a remote Asian (Middle Eastern? Soviet?) country to try their hand at becoming kings. Perhaps a better description of the film is that it is full of humor, while at the same time delving into the nature of greed, power and fortune. John Huston in all his glory. The DVD has a short documentary released at the time the film came out, and shows the horrifying stunt that Connery had to perform while on a rope ladder across a chasm. He's singing at the time, and if his voice isn't shaking, it should be. Didn't they have stuntmen back then?!
year: 1975
length: 129 min.
rating: 3.5
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073341/combined
Sunday, October 19, 2003
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