Smoreni Zmaj This is one of my favorite movies. Two crooks and adventurers, former English soldiers and members of Masonic lodge, travel from India to Kafiristan, where Europeans have not been seen since Alexander the Great, to conquer and become kings. Adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's novel with Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Christopher Plummer.9/10

classicsoncall 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.

darthelton This is a highly enjoyable and lighthearted, yet somewhat moving film about two best friends and comrades who hoodwink an entire middle eastern village into thinking that one of them (Sean Connery) is a god. Well, as you can imagine, it doesn't go too well. This has now become one of my favorite Michael Caine movies.Not much more can be said about it unless you want to go into the deeper meaning of how god constructed man in his image, yet man cannot handle the responsibilities of a god, and how temptation and greed are a double edged sword. Lots of great lines, lots of memorable moments, well worth a watch. Just remember that THIS is Sean Connery's favorite role.

mark-4522 Nominated for 4 Oscars yet winning none it's shocking it didn't get nominated for more. Michael Caine's performance was stunning as a best friend who stays with his comrade no matter what. This is the ultimate of buddy, road-trip films similar to Easy Rider or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. You're supposed to enjoy the ride even if there's foreshadowing that things don't end right. At the same time, there's a Doctor Zhivago aspect of a grand epic. The scenery is stunning as is the whole scope of the film. In Doctor Zhivago, you know from the beginning how the tale ends and you almost forget it because of 3 hours of grand (although sad) story. In this one, the two hours seem to fly by. The jokes and clever human insights are thrown out, at several levels (both vaudeville as well as more subtle) faster than than you can follow along or laugh. The material is wonderfully unPC by today's standards and consequently, a few (few) reviewers were turned off by it but simultaneously, it was a film of it's times (the 1960's, the late Victorian era, and even the cultures portrayed in the film) that you feel immersed and drawn in. This Is An Epic Film. Like life, sometimes we are too busy having a good time, or not, to stop and smell the roses. You can do that after a 2nd viewing which I guarantee you'll want to have.