Michael Caine produced The Man Who Would Be King.
His most notable roles in the 1970s included Get Carter -LRB- 1971 -RRB- , The Last Valley , Sleuth -LRB- 1972 -RRB- , for which he earned his second Academy Award nomination , The Man Who Would Be King -LRB- 1975 -RRB- , and A Bridge Too Far -LRB- 1977 -RRB-.
It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery , Michael Caine , Saeed Jaffrey , and Christopher Plummer as Kipling -LRB- giving a name to the novella 's anonymous narrator -RRB-.
