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...some liberties with plot but holds to the original spirit. Kipling himself even shows up as a major character, wittily played by Christopher Plummer. He serves as a stand-in for the story's narrator, a slightly dazed sounding board for the wild ideas and adventures of Danny Dravot (Sean Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine). These two shopworn soldiers of fortune, after time in Her Majesty's forces, set out on their grandest exploit: to become kings of the remote country of Kafiristan, a primitive land in a far corner of Afghanistan. "They have two-and-thirty...
Penny Whirligig. Dravot and Carnehan succeed beyond their wildest dreams, and then fall farther than their worst fears. They sweep into the country with a shipment of rifles, organize the natives into armies and take over as rulers. Danny is taken for a god and made king. The .wealth of the entire country is at hand and ready for plunder. Danny, however, decides to live the dream, take a wife and settle into monarchy. Before Peachy starts back across the mountain with half the national treasury, Danny asks him to stay for the wedding. At the ceremony, Danny...
...godless public. Learn lessons from them on how to hold the soul in leash like a well-trained hound. What then? A hound goes hunting. Of what use is hunting except to exercise the hound?" There lies Mr. Maurois's purpose. That is why he likes Kipling. Carnehan and Dravot have made Disraeli and Byron live again...
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