Emanuel L. Wolf

Based on a Rudyard Kipling story and packed with spectacle, humor, excitement and bold twists of fate, John Huston's film of The Man Who Would be King earns its crown as "an epic like no other. One of the screen's great adventure yarns" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). Sean Connery and Michael Caine -- chins out, shoulders squared and wiht a sly wink -- star as British Sargeants Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. The Empire was built by men...

After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to 'The Farm,' a bizarre insane asylum run by Doctor D. After being 'cured', Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer at a nearby college and begins a disastrous affair with the wife of a colleague.