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    Farewell to the King

    PG-131989 · Action · 1h 57m

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  1. Mar 3, 1989 · Farewell to the King: Directed by John Milius. With Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez. Borneo, 1942: An American soldier escapes WWII and becomes the king of the headhunters in the jungle.

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    • Action, Adventure, Drama
    • John Milius
    • 1989-03-03
  2. Farewell to the King is a 1989 American action adventure drama film written and directed by John Milius. It stars Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, and Gerry Lopez and is loosely based on the 1969 novel L'Adieu au Roi by Pierre Schoendoerffer. Longtime Milius collaborator Basil Poledouris composed the musical score.

  3. An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the ...

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  6. This image of the white man deep in the jungle ruling a tribe must be a compelling one for John Milius, who wrote and directed “Farewell to the King.”. In his screenplay for Francis Coppola ’s “ Apocalypse Now ,” Milius created a similar character for Marlon Brando.

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  8. After escaping from imprisonment by Japanese forces, American soldier Learoyd (Nick Nolte) takes shelter in the remote wilderness of Borneo. When Learoyd encounters a primitive tribe out in the...

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    • War, Action, Drama
    • PG-13
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