This movie revolves around the struggles of two former and courageous British soldiers, who serve in India, who make their mind and resign from the army for being kings in Kafiristan, a small town, where no white man enters since Alexander the Great.
Connery and Caine (both excellent) become classic Huston overreachers, and echoes of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Moby Dick permeate the mythic yarn.
It's a mystery why John Hustorn's exciting version of Kipling's classic adventure, terrifically acted by Sean Connery and Michael Caine, was such a commercial flop.
The film is supposed to be fun -- despite its ending -- and even that is an interesting departure from the über-serious tone of most epics of the time.
