Radio review – Escape – “Man who Would be King” (1947) **1/2

Kipling’s marvellous story of adventure and hubris isn’t very long so it adapts well to the half hour Escape format – but this version lacks atmosphere and decent acting from the two leads (if they couldn’t have gotten decent English actors they just should have changed the two leads to Americans, it still would have worked and wouldn’t have had that naughty-naughty cockneys thing. After all, that's what John Huston was going to do when he wanted to make it with Gable and Bogart.)