This movie is also insane. I can't remember now where I heard of it, but I saw the words "Sean Connery" and "Michael Caine" next to each other and thought 'yes, I will, thank you'. The fact that Christopher Plummer is also in it is just gravy.Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) is a journalist for a small Indian newspaper when he happens across two very colorful characters in Danny (Sean Connery) and Peachy (Michael Caine). The two men have recently been discharged from the British army and are rather at odds with the new, more orderly Empire so they decide to head into the uncharted regions north of Afghanistan in the hopes of becoming kings. A local tribe mistakenly believes Danny to be the reincarnation of Alexander the Great and it's not too long before he starts to believe it as well.
There are so many moments of gleeful insanity that it's easy to forget this is a drama at its core. It is epic in scope but still feels very personal. I have no idea why this isn't talked about more. I encourage you to pick it up if you'd like a bit more vintage flavor to your Road Warrior.
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