{"id":10401,"date":"2025-07-08T18:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:14:33","slug":"murrindindi-kiplings-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/07\/08\/murrindindi-kiplings-india\/","title":{"rendered":"MURRINDINDI: Kipling&#8217;s India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murrindindi Film society will present John Huston\u2019s colourful 1975 production of The Man Who Would be King. Doors open at 6.45pm for a 7pmstart on friday (July 18) at the Yea Butter Factory.<br>Based on a novella by Rudyard Kipling, the film had been a pet projecct of director Huston for many years.<br>The story follows the adventures of two rogue ex British Army sergeants in far off Kafiristan in the 1890s.<br>After briefly making the acquaintance of Kipling in India they set off through the Khyber Pass to aquire ill-gotten gains. However various occurrences lead to one of them being created King by a local tribe which eventually leads to mayhem.<br>The adventurers are played by Michael Caine (Peachy Carnehan) and Sean Connery (Daniel Dravot), while Christopher Plummer appears as Kipling. Michael Caine\u2019s wife Shakira plays Roxane, a beautiful local maiden.<br>The film has been described as \u201can escapist entertainment, quite unabashed and thrilling and fun\u201d but also as \u201ca genuinely witty and literate adventure story\u201d.<br>It is hoped that as many members as possible will be able to attend this entertaining screening. Prospective members and first time guests will be made welcome free of charge.<br>All enquiries to Jill Dwyer, Secretary, 5797 2480 or jill.dwyer@bigpond.com<br><strong>Jill Dwyer<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murrindindi Film society will present John Huston\u2019s colourful 1975 production of The Man Who Would be King. Doors open at 6.45pm for a 7pmstart on friday (July 18) at the Yea Butter Factory.Based on a novella by Rudyard Kipling, the film had been a pet projecct of director Huston for many years.The story follows the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10406,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions\/10406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}