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By Azaziel - 28/08/2009 08:09:49
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I saw this brilliant film last night, has anyone else seen it?
I love Michael Caine's Character - Peachy. Was this an actual book written by Rudyard Kipling?
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By Stu Thorpe - 28/08/2009 10:05:20
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King_(film)
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By lauderdale - 28/08/2009 12:24:51
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Yes a fascinating film based on the story written by Kipling, a very famous Freemason. I had just done my Second Degree the first time I saw this film and enjoyed picking up all the Masonic references therein.
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By BrotherSteele - 28/08/2009 15:53:33
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It has one of my favorite Hymns in it. Although it coud just be the fact that Sean Connery is blasting it out at the end. "The Son of God Goes Forth to War". Excellent film.
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By Roy V - 29/08/2009 14:07:59
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Lauderdale (28/08/2009)
Yes a fascinating film based on the story written by Kipling, a very famous Freemason. And featuring Kipling as a character!
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By lauderdale - 02/09/2009 18:14:55
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Yes, doesn't Peachy (Caine) steal the S&Q fob off of Kipling's watch but return it to him before they go on their adventures?
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By Tom Cherup - 02/09/2009 22:25:37
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Lauderdale (02/09/2009)
Yes, doesn't Peachy (Caine) steal the S&Q fob off of Kipling's watch but return it to him before they go on their adventures?Yes your right! That's in the early part of the film, when they first meet.
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By Mike Martin - 02/09/2009 23:06:09
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This was the film that directed my original course away from the anti-masonic material I was reading in the mid 80s. I went out and bought a Kipling compendium of short stories so that I could read the original, the story itself is quite different from the film, I would recommend it.
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By Michael A - 28/09/2009 11:44:24
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This is a great film, the DVD of which I have in my collection.
The book is obviously out of copyright and is therefore available at the Gutenburg project web site (www.gutenberg.org). As a PDF it can be read on a number of readers, including Stanza on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
There are lots of other Masonic books at the Gutenberg web site, BTW.
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By Mike Martin - 28/09/2009 13:05:44
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It can also just be read online: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8king10h.htm opening para: The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once came near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom — army, law-courts, revenue and policy all complete. But, to-day, I greatly fear that my King is dead, and if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself. The beginning of everything was in a railway train upon the road to Mhow from Ajmir. There had been a deficit in the Budget, which necessitated travelling, not Second-class, which is only half as dear as First-class, but by Intermediate, which is very awful indeed. There are no cushions in the Intermediate class, and the population are either Intermediate, which is Eurasian, or native, which for a long night journey is nasty; or Loafer, which is amusing though intoxicated. Intermediates do not patronize refreshment-rooms. They carry their food in bundles and pots, and buy sweets from the native sweetmeat-sellers, and drink the roadside water. That is why in the hot weather Intermediates are taken out of the carriages dead, and in all weathers are most properly looked down upon.
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By cuthbert - 28/09/2009 17:20:31
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Is it true that the people involved in the movie, Houston, Carradine and Connery are freemasons? I heard that rumour...
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By postscript - 07/11/2009 14:53:56
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Last year I read Kipling Sahib by Charles Allen, a fascinating biography of the young Kipling, dealing with his formative years in India. The encounter with a brother Mason in an Indian railway carriage, during which he was asked to convey a message to another brother, happened to Kipling in real life and helped inspire his story. His watch was not stolen though - that was not in the original story either, just the film. Although there is not a great deal about Masonry in Allen's book, I would strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in Kipling and his work.
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By Rueben Moriarty - 13/08/2010 19:43:46
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My proposer first told me about the film which I too enjoyed. Recently I bought the book which is a collection of short stories and read and enjoyed it. I was also told that once I join I would get more out of the story and notice more within the book/film. So my plan is to read the story again after my initiation and again after my 2nd degree and finally after my 3rd.
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By john dee - 14/08/2010 11:09:30
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cuthbert (28/09/2009)
Is it true that the people involved in the movie, Houston, Carradine and Connery are freemasons? I heard that rumour... I have never heard this rumour mentioned but even so I very much doubt that this rumour is true. I have never seen any of the names on any list of Masons.
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