John Huston at long last realizes his plan to adapt the Rudyard Kipling story, which he first took up, twenty years earlier, as a project to star Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Whether it's because of the new age, or Huston's old age, or simply the increased distance from the line of gung-ho Gunga Din-type interpretations of Kipling, the film has a weary, wise detachment from the foolhardy adventure -- a travesty of British imperialism undertaken by two unscrupulous vagabonds, adrift in the Queen's India, who travel north to Kafiristan, in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, with the intent of using their know-how in sophisticated weapons and military strategy to advance themselves to the rank of kings. Sean Connery and Michael Caine are very good at slanting the customary Kipling bravado toward a stunted, school-boy silliness and irresponsibility. It is one of Huston's finest movies, and the worthiest rendering of Kipling on screen. (1975) — Duncan Shepherd
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