Filmtip: The Man who would be King [1975]

Zondag 1 maart van 16:00 tot 18:10 uur te zien op BBC 2.

Bill Croke: Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, the great Victorian's adventure novella about two retired British soldiers -- Daniel Dravot (Sean Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine) -- who try to use their military expertise ("It's detriments like us that built this bloody empire") to subvert a remote Afghan mountain kingdom and steal its vast royal treasure.