Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

The man who would be king / Emanuel L. Wolf presents An Allied Artists film ; a John Huston-John Foreman film ; screenplay by John Huston and Gladys Hill ; produced by John Foreman ; directed by John Huston.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2010]

Description:

1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

"This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to become Kings in their own right"--IMDb.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA: PG.

Subjects:

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 -- Film adaptations.

Soldiers of fortune -- Drama.

Adventure and adventurers -- Afghanistan -- Nūristān -- Drama.

British -- Afghanistan -- Nūristān -- Drama.

Treasure troves -- Afghanistan -- Nūristān -- Drama.

Genre:

Action and adventure films.

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Huston, John, 1906-1987, screenwriter, film director.

Foreman, John, 1925-1992, film producer.

Hill, Gladys, screenwriter.

Wolf, Emanuel L., presenter.

Connery, Sean, actor.

Caine, Michael, actor.

Plummer, Christopher, actor.

Jaffrey, Saeed, 1929-2015, actor.

Larbi, Doghmi, 1930-1992, actor.

Caine, Shakira, 1947- actor.

May, Jack, 1922-1997, actor.

Bouih, Karroom Ben, actor.

Jarre, Maurice, composer (expression)

Lloyd, Russell, 1916-2008, editor of moving image work.

Morris, Oswald, 1915-2014, director of photography.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Man who would be king.

Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, production company.

Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Man who would be king

Call it magic, the making of the man who would be king.

Notes:

Based on a story by Rudyard Kipling.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Special features: Cast & crew ; Kipling's short story ; Freemasonry ; Almost a different movie ; Pronounced man and wife ; Together again ; On location ; Call it magic: the making of The man who would be king.

Music composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre ; editor, Russell Lloyd ; director of photography, Oswald Morris.

Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Doghmi Larbi, Shakira Caine, Jack May, Karroom Ben Bouih.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (letterbox); Dolby Digital mono; double-sided disc.

In English with optional English, French, and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.

ISBN:

0780663918

9780780663916

9780780663916 : DVD

0780663918 : DVD

Publisher Number:

3000033427

Other Number:

685111517

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

878234

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Man who