"I can only repeat, you're a pair of lunatics!"

Rating: 8/10 (25 April 2018)

God's Holy Trousers! Here I go again - kicking myself for not catching this movie sooner than some forty plus years after it was made. Sean Connery and Michael Caine portray a wonderful pair of former British soldiers who decide that living a mundane life is not for them. So what's the solution? Let's find a far off land and declare ourselves 'Kings'! Only by the time Danny Dravot (Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Caine) attain their goal, Danny quite literally begins to lord it over his sidekick Peachy and fellow traveler Billy Fish (Saeed Jaffrey) when his countenance is mistakenly taken for a descendant of Alexander the Great. Via improper enunciation, Alexander becomes 'Sikander' to the native villagers in a score of towns on the Indian sub-continent. Had they been wise and followed Peachy's unerring observation to take the treasures and run, all would have ended happily for the likeable Brits. But as is often the case, their downfall is the result of a woman, but for that you'll have to catch the movie. The story is sprinkled with the presence of it's original author, Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer), much in the same way as the more recent "John Carter" movie was bookended by the presence of Edgar Rice Burroughs. This is a colorful tale with both high and low adventure and an ending that's reminiscent of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", while borrowing somewhat from the exploits of Butch and Sundance.