The Best Buddy Movie ever made.

Rating: 10/10 (14 April 2008)

Fans of Kippling will not be disappointed. Though entirely fanciful (particularly with respect to Alexander) "The Man Who Would be King," through the relationship between the principal characters, presents a truer vision of the fraternity of Freemasons than is provided by more recent films or for that matter any other film. The interaction between Kippling (who appears as a character in his own fiction)and Brother Danny and Brother Peachy will bring a smile to the initiated as well as the voyeur.
The movie begins and ends in the office of the fictitious Kippling where he is confronted by an apparent street beggar reveled to be Brother Peachey Carnehan. Pechey proceeds to relate the tale of his first and subsequent encounters with Brother Kippling during which Kippling is introduced to Brother Daniel Dravot. Kippling is called on to witness a pact between the two old friends Brothers Peachy and Danny to become Kings in Kafiristan.
After witnessing the pact Brother Kippling see the two friends off equipped with twenty Martini-Henry rifles and gives Brother Danny his Masonic watch fob. As Brother Peachy relates the rest of the story to Brother Kippling years latter the two use the twenty Martini-Henry rifles to good effect and the gift of the watch fob to Brother Danny is central to their ultimate success and subsequent tragic fall.