WLM - The Man Who Would Be King
Added 2023-03-03 13:01:00 +0000 UTCOn this month’s Patron-requested We ❤️ Movies, the guys are chatting about John Huston’s Rudyard Kipling adaptation, The Man Who Would Be King! How wild is Michael Caine’s makeup for the bookends of this film? Has Connery’s butt ever looked better on screen? And wow, what a WILD stunt at the end here! PLUS: Owen Wilson boards a train to Kafiristan!
The Man Who Would Be King stars Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Saeed Jaffrey, Larbi Doghmi, Jack May, Barroom Ben Bouih, and Christopher Plummer as Rudyard Kipling; directed by John Huston.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Same! A beloved '90s dadfernoon-tape classic for me.
Parker
2023-04-03 20:33:56 +0000 UTCI always try to send in LRM picks that fit the bill but would likely never have been an episode otherwise. Am over the moon that it actually got picked and became a great episode.
Parker
2023-04-03 20:31:14 +0000 UTCSee I greatly prefer LRM to lead to picks like TMWWBK here, which almost certainly would never have become an ep otherwise. I feel like Total Recall could be chosen by the gang as a regular WLM at any time(in addition to Andrew & Steve's great Blank Check guest-ep on it) :)
Parker
2023-04-03 20:28:03 +0000 UTCIt did have trailers on it, but only for what was on Cinemax
Smaug
2023-03-09 17:40:17 +0000 UTCI wonder if Steve ended up with your Dad's VHS ...
Paul DeCoursey-Clark
2023-03-09 17:32:26 +0000 UTCChris referencing Alex Winters' Freaked was the highlight for me
Rod
2023-03-06 19:37:30 +0000 UTCIf you listen to the Blank Check podcast, you can hear Andrew and Steve guest star on that show's episode on Total Recall 🙂
Tim O'Connor
2023-03-05 22:31:21 +0000 UTCYou guys could have been talking about Arnold’s Total Recall, but it’s the [bad] luck of the draw.
Paul
2023-03-05 06:15:52 +0000 UTCAlso the title of a great billy woods song
Joe Wakefield
2023-03-04 10:43:18 +0000 UTCThe numerous mentions of brown face did not make sense to me. We’re neither supposed to think the white actors are actually dark-skinned characters, nor are we supposed to laugh along at some caricature or stereotype.
AlsoNamedB0rt
2023-03-04 03:34:20 +0000 UTCThere's a special quality to the WLM discussions that is greatly appreciated.
Alexander Farr
2023-03-03 17:42:39 +0000 UTCLishtener Requesht Month will have you all eating cold Burger King shoon enough
Tim O'Connor
2023-03-03 17:07:01 +0000 UTCThis is great, my dad recorded this movie from Cinemax so we had it on VHS as a kid and we watched it a lot
Smaug
2023-03-03 15:28:02 +0000 UTCFantastic pick, I love this film. 👍🏻
Matt Naylor
2023-03-03 15:22:07 +0000 UTCDon't worry, I only know because I read it on wikipedia the other day!
Felipe Sobreiro
2023-03-03 13:37:04 +0000 UTCMaybe next year
Glenn
2023-03-03 13:29:27 +0000 UTCIm getting mixed up then, i swear there was an interview where Caine said he fancied her, got her cast just so he could talk to her. Must be getting muddled up, sorry
Matthew Lloyd
2023-03-03 13:22:33 +0000 UTCNo, they were already married (that's why she was cast)
Felipe Sobreiro
2023-03-03 13:20:59 +0000 UTCI have been looking forward to this one solely because of how out of left field a LRM pick this was.
Michael Daniels
2023-03-03 13:08:13 +0000 UTCGodsh Holy Troushersh
Felipe Sobreiro
2023-03-03 13:08:03 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this as a kid a few times and loving it. Its how Michael Caine met his wife.
Matthew Lloyd
2023-03-03 13:04:17 +0000 UTCLets go!
Richard Richie
2023-03-03 13:02:40 +0000 UTC
