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Farewell, my king. Farewell. After getting stuck in some Pacific island during WWII and crossing path with the natives while sneaking out of the Japanese troops, Nick Nolte's character learns the way of the natives and upraise as their King, but he can't be in peace with his new people finding out a group of British soldiers arrives to the ...
Jun 6, 2006 · Farewell to the King should have been John Milius' masterpiece. Harking back to Joseph Conrad and the days of high adventure so beloved of the writer-director, this WW2 tale of a deserter who becomes a king in Borneo only to lose everything fighting the Japanese and betrayed by the Allies, it seemed made to measure for his brand of bravado and ...
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Farewell to the King should have been John Milius' masterpiece. Harking back to Joseph Conrad and the days of high adventure so beloved of the writer-director, this WW2 tale of a deserter who becomes a king in Borneo only to lose everything fighting the Japanese and betrayed by the Allies, it seemed made to measure for his brand of bravado and ...
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Summaries. Borneo, 1942: An American soldier escapes WWII and becomes the king of the headhunters in the jungle. Two British soldiers are parachuted into the area to find local support for the battle against the Japanese. An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader ...
Director, Screenplay. Pierre Schoendoerffer. Novel. 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 ...
Farewell to the King. 1988. 1 hr 54 mins. Action & Adventure. PG13. Watchlist. An American WWII deserter becomes the leader of a Borneo head-hunting tribe, leading them in battle against the ...
May 2, 2006 · Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, James Fox. During WWII, a shipwrecked U.S. Army deserter is captured and escapes certain execution from the Japanese. Found by a tribe of Borneo headhunters, they proclaim him as their king. When British commandos later find him and urge him to fight against the Japanese, he initially refuses, that is, until the ...
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