To the natives' astonishment, the soldier draws it out without a trace of blood or injury, leading them to believe him a god. During a skirmish, Dravot is shot in the chest with an arrow rather than entering his flesh, it lodges in his Masonic pendant. Set in colonial India in the l800s, the film follows the exploits of two rogue British Army sergeants, Danny Dravot (Sean Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine). There could be no more perfect director, then, to helm the larger-than-life story of The Man Who Would Be King (1975). Kipling's romantic worldview may well have informed Huston's adult life, with his experiences as a Mexican cavalry officer, big-game hunter, boxer, painter and even opera singer. It's the world of adventure, high honor, mystery". Kipling writes about a world gone, a geography gone. In a l976 article for Film Encyclopedia, Huston remarked, "I read so much Kipling, it's in my unconscious. While bedridden as a child, director John Huston became a student of Rudyard Kipling's writing.
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