herae
Log in
Film · watch together
The Man Who Would Be King poster

Watch The Man Who Would Be King (1975) together, long-distance

adventure film · drama film · 129 min

Open in Herae

About the film

The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 epic historical adventure film directed by John Huston, adapted by Huston and Gladys Hill from Rudyard Kipling's 1888 novella. It stars Sean Connery and Michael Caine in the leading roles, two rogue ex-soldiers who set off from late-19th-century British India in search of adventure and end up in faraway Kafiristan, where one is taken for a god and made their king. The supporting cast includes Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator). An adaptation of Kipling's novella was a longtime passion project for director Huston, with development beginning in the late-1950s, and Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart in mind for the leading roles. Shooting took place on-location in Morocco and France, and at Pinewood Studios in England. The musical score was composed by Maurice Jarre.

Where it streams

How to watch it together from different places

Each of you opens The Man Who Would Be King on your own account. Herae keeps the two players in sync, so a pause or a skip happens for both of you, and puts a video call in the corner of the film so you can see each other react.

How watching together long-distance works

Title details from Wikidata (CC0). Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Artwork from TMDB and Wikimedia Commons. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.