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Why was Morocco used as the filming location for 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 the 1975 film The Man Who Would Be King, Morocco was used as a filming location to stand in for the story's Afghanistan setting.1