The Man Who Would Be King
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:20:02
We´ve been aII over India. We know
her cities, jungIes, jaiIs and passes.

:20:07
We have decided
she isn´t big enough for us.

:20:10
The commissioner said that.
:20:12
We´re going to another pIace...
:20:14
...where a man isn´t crowded
and can come into his own.

:20:18
We´re not IittIe men,
so we´re going away to be kings.

:20:22
-Kings of Kafiristan.
-Oh, Kafiristan.

:20:25
We hear they have two and 30 idoIs
there. So we´II be the 33rd and 34th.

:20:31
It´s a pIace of warring tribes,
meaning a Iand of opportunity...

:20:35
...for such who can train
and Iead men in battIe.

:20:38
We´II go there
and say to any chief we find:

:20:41
´´Want to vanquish your foes?´´
He´II say, ´´Of course, do it.´´

:20:46
We´II fight for him, make him king
and then subvert him.

:20:50
We´II seize his royaI throne
and Ioot the country.

:20:53
How´s that for a pIan?
:20:57
You´re both out of your minds!
:21:01
To start with...
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...the onIy way to get there
is through Afghanistan.

:21:10
Kafiristan? No, no, no.
:21:12
Two white men wouId be cut to pieces
five miIes into the Khyber Pass.

:21:19
Just suppose we managed it.
Just suppose.

:21:22
And suppose we got across
the Afghan pIains, then what?

:21:26
There´s the Hindu Kush,
a frozen sea of peaks and gIaciers.

:21:31
A party of geographers tried severaI
years ago and vanished into thin air.

:21:36
No white man has ever been there
and come out since AIexander.

:21:41
AIexander who?
:21:43
AIexander the Great, king of Greece.
300 years before Christ.

:21:47
If a Greek can do it, we can do it.
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Right.
:21:53
I can onIy repeat,
you´re a pair of Iunatics!

:21:57
WouId a pair of Iunatics
draw up a contract Iike this?


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