The Man Who Would Be King Movie Script

You're both out of your minds!

To start with the only way to get there is through Afghanistan.

Kafiristan? No, no, no.

Two white men would be cut to pieces five miles into the Khyber Pass.

Just suppose we managed it.

Just suppose.

And suppose we got across the Afghan plains, then what?

There's the Hindu Kush, a frozen sea of peaks and glaciers.

A party of geographers tried several years ago and vanished into thin air.

No white man has ever been there and come out since Alexander.

Alexander who?

Alexander the Great, king of Greece.

If a Greek can do it, we can do it.

Right.

I can only repeat, you're a pair of lunatics!

Would a pair of lunatics draw up a contract like this?

"This contract between us, pursuing and witnesseth in the name of God.

One:

We will settle this together, i.e., to be kings of Kafiristan.

Two:

We will not, while this is being settled, look at liquor or any woman, so as to get mix ed up with one or the other harmful.

Three:

We act with dignity and discretion.

If one is in trouble, the other stays by him. Signed by us this day."

There's no need for the last article, but it's got a ring to it.

Daniel.

Now, you witness it and it's legal.

Well, gentlemen, it's 4 in the morning.