Farewell to the King (1989)1h57
War · Adventure
Director John Milius (6.6 avg)
Also directed Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn, The Wind and the Lion, and 6 more
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 Japanese attack his adopted people.
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Cast
Nick Nolte
Nigel Havers
Marilyn Tokuda
Frank McRae
Gerry Lopez
James Fox
Marius Weyers
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