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Farewell to the King

6.0 117 mins War   Adventure   1989
Orion Pictures   Cine Location Services   David Hannay Productions   Film Plan Financing Number 1   Ruddy Morgan Productions   Southeast Asia Film Location Services Sdn. Bhd.  
Director(s): John Milius

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.

Casts of Farewell to the King

Nigel Havers

as Capt. Fairbourne

Frank McRae

as Sgt. Tenga

Gerry Lopez

as Gwai

Nick Nolte

as Learoyd

Choy Chang Wing

as Lian

Aki Aleong

as Col. Mitamura

Marius Weyers

as Sgt. Conklin

William Wise

as Dynamite Dave

Wayne Pygram

as Bren Armstrong

Richard Morgan

as Strech Lewis

Elan Oberon

as Vivienne

James Fox

as Col. Ferguson

Michael Nissman

as Gen. Sutherland

John Bennett Perry

as Gen. MacArthur

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