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unusual facts about The Man Who Would Be King



Black Tyrone

In the 1975 film The Man Who Would Be King (based upon Kipling's writings) a character guarding the Khyber Pass, Private Mulvaney, is said to be "a loudmouth Mick from the Black Tyrones."


see also

Ben Macintyre

He also wrote The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan, and a book on the real-life double agent of Germany and Britain during the Second World War, Eddie Chapman, titled Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy.

Charles Masson

Ben Macintyre, The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan.