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Which actors played the explorers in John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King?

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John Huston John Huston (left) on the set of *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre* (1948).

In John Huston’s 1975 film adaptation of The Man Who Would Be King, the two lead explorers—Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan—were portrayed by Sean Connery and Michael Caine, respectively.1