Claim: Michael Caine starred in a movie.

The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 Technicolor film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling novella of the same title . It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery , Michael Caine , Saeed Jaffrey , and Christopher Plummer as Kipling -LRB- giving a name to the novella 's anonymous narrator -RRB- . The film follows two rogue ex-non-commissioned officers of the Indian Army who set off from late 19th-century British India in search of adventure and end up as kings of Kafiristan .