Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Spot on!:

Just the sort of movie you'd like to see on a wet sunday afternoon when you have nothing better to do than watch television.

Strangely, early reviews of this movie criticise the casting, insisting that Connery should have played Carnahan and Caine Dravot. Why this is, who knows. I think the two actors play superb roles and, as has been said before, the chemistry between them is startlingly obvious.

Carnahan and Dravot are ex-British soldiers in 19th century India during the time of the Raj. Deciding... more info

Good adventure story, but not for modern audiences:

John Huston directed this 1975 film, which is based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling who was a journalist in India from 1887-1889. Those were the years that the sun never set on the British Empire, and the colonialist perspective is taken for granted.

It's about former British soldiers played by Sean Connery and Michael Caine, who, with twenty guns and a spirit of adventure, set out to conquer the fictional area known as Kafiristan by introducing firearms, conquering warring tribes and setting... more info

I WILL PUT IT SIMPLY:

BUY THIS MOVIE

I will give you three reasons why:
1) Sean Connery: one of the best actors. Period.
2) Michael Caine: another of the best. And he looks good in that hat.
3) Kipling: you just can't beat that for a writer.

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