Farewell to the King (1989)

Actors: Aki Aleong (actor), John Milius (writer), Basil Poledouris (composer), Anne V. Coates (editor), Albert S. Ruddy (producer), Nick Nolte (actor), John Milius (director), James Fox (actor), Frank McRae (actor), Marius Weyers (actor), Nigel Havers (actor), Andre Morgan (producer), Sarah Lucraft (miscellaneous crew), John Bennett Perry (actor), Gerry Lopez (actor),

Plot: 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.

Keywords: 1940s, asia, baby, based-on-book, battle, borneo, british, british-soldier, cannibalism, cave
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War,
Taglines: In the midst of war, one man vanished into the jungle, and emerged as king.

Quotes:

[last lines]::Capt. Fairbourne: I'll always know that he's out there. A free man. I hope he found his valley, somewhere. Farewell, my king. Farewell.

Learoyd: I could sell your heads to the Japs.

Sgt. Tenga: Can't have any king, save the one in London, sir.

Sgt. Tenga: I hope you know those are the largest boots in Asia sir.

Capt. Fairbourne: If you were a communist how could you be king?::Learoyd: Only a communist would think of it.

Sgt. Conklin: Sir, what's the deal on the women? They free?

Learoyd: I have a special relationship with the spirits. I died once. I had to. I had to give up everything, even the will to live.

Col. Ferguson: No one moves very far out of line. When you're young you think you're blazing a trail. One day you look down and notice it's a beaten track.

[first lines]::Title Card: THE COAST OF BORNEO - April 1942 / Shortly after the fall of the Philippines the Japanese are triumphant in the Pacific

[first lines]::Learoyd: [coming ashore] He's dead. He's dead.::Sgt. Conklin: Lights! It's a village.::Learoyd: No, no. That's Japanese.::Sgt. Conklin: There's no choice!::Learoyd: No, I've had enough. Bataan. Corregidor. You were wrong! We're free now. We're free. Free to go our own ways.