A pointer from Roger Ebert's review of The Man Who Would Be King. Apparently based on some things by Kipling. Stock Saturday matinee fare made towards the end of the Raj when Gandhi et al were already on the march. Directed by George Stevens. Filmed in California. Not Cary Grant's finest piece of acting; Victor McLaglen does a bit better and Douglas Fairbanks Jr strikes poses just like Errol Flynn. They squandered millions of extras in a brief closing battle melee. Those poor elephants.
Bertolt Brecht at the time! B. R. Crisler (I think) for the New York Times: more violence less romance thanks. He doesn't notice that McLaglen is even more in love with his elephant than the army.
