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Unklerupert
@unklerupert.uk

ps here's a great piece on the making of The Man Who Would Be King to accompany your watching. cinephiliabeyond.org/empires-end-...

cinephiliabeyond.orgEmpire’s End: John Huston’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King’—Revisiting a Masterpiece on Its 50th Anniversary • Cinephilia & BeyondBy Tim Pelan On the occasion of John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King screening at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2010 to mark star Sean Connery's 80th birthday (he plays the eponymous...
Unklerupert
@unklerupert.uk

Laurence of Arabia on BBC iPlayer too, should you wish to witness the greatest entrance in film imho (Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali from the distance in shimmering desert heat).

Dr AM Sardar
@amsardar.bsky.social

Odd thing, Saed Jaffery speaks Urdu to the tribesman & they reply in Pushto and he carries on as if nothing's happened. The two languages are not interchangeable. I can speak Urdu/Hindi/Punjabi - but not a word of Pushto.