Great Entertainment

The film was based on a Rudyard Kipling story filled with much excitement, adventure spectacle, breath-taking scenery (in Morocco and the Grand Montée Mountain in Chamonix, France. It’s one of the screen’s great epics.

Connery and Caine - chins out, shoulders squared… these two crafty ex-soldiers have a grandiose scheme. The British Empire was built by men like them, and now they’re out to build their own empire, venturing through extreme hardship to reach the remote, isolated region of Kafiristan, attempting to become rich as kings.

Try to get the DVD, and preferably watch it with closed caption, because there is much Cockney accent dialog used by Michael Caine with unfamiliar words.