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Farewell to the King, the Glossary

Farewell to the King is a 1989 American action adventure drama film written and directed by John Milius.^[1]

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Films based on works by Pierre Schoendoerffer
Films directed by John Milius
Films set in Borneo
Films with screenplays by John Milius

Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Adventure film

An adventure film is a genre of film.

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The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog, is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute (AFI) to catalog all commercially-made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures from the birth of cinema in 1893 to the present.

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Aki Aleong

Assing "Aki" Aleong (born December 19, 1934) is a Trinidadian-born American character actor and singer who has also been active in songwriting and musical production.

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Albert S. Ruddy

Albert Stotland Ruddy (March 28, 1930 – May 25, 2024) was a Canadian-American film and television producer.

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Anne V. Coates

Anne Voase Coates (12 December 1925 – 8 May 2018) was a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career.

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Basil Poledouris

Basil Konstantine Poledouris (August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven.

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Bau District, Sarawak

Bau is a district, in Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia.

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Big Wednesday

Big Wednesday is a 1978 American coming of age buddy sports comedy-drama film directed by John Milius. Farewell to the King and Big Wednesday are films directed by John Milius, films scored by Basil Poledouris and films with screenplays by John Milius.

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Borneo

Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.

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Dayak people

The Dayak (older spelling: Dajak) or Dyak or Dayuh are one of the native groups of Borneo.

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Dean Semler

Dean William Semler ACS ASC (born 26 May 1943) is an Australian cinematographer and film director. Over his career, he has worked as a cinematographer, camera operator, director, second unit director, and assistant director. He is a three-time recipient of the AACTA Award for Best Cinematography and an Academy Award winner.

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Desertion

Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning.

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Donald Sutherland

Donald McNichol Sutherland (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor.

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Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army.

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Flixster

Flixster was an American social-networking movie website for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies.

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Frank McRae

Frank McRae (March 18, 1941 – April 29, 2021) was an American film and television actor and a professional football player.

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Gerry Lopez

Gerry Lopez (born November 7, 1948), aka Mr.

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Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.

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James Brooke

Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo.

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James Fox

James William Fox (born William Fox; 19 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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John Bennett Perry

John Bennett Perry (born January 4, 1941) is an American actor and former model.

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John Milius

John Frederick Milius (born April 11, 1944) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Marius Weyers

Marius Weyers (born 3 February 1945, in Johannesburg) is a South African actor.

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Mark Robson (film director)

Mark Robson (4 December 1913 – 20 June 1978) was a Canadian-American film director, producer, and editor.

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MGM Home Entertainment

MGM Home Entertainment LLC (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, d/b/a MGM Home Entertainment and formerly known as MGM Home Video, MGM/CBS Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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Mike Medavoy

Morris Mike Medavoy (born January 21, 1941) is an American film producer and business executive.

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Nick Nolte

Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor.

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Nigel Havers

Nigel Allan Havers (born 6 November 1951) is an English actor and presenter.

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Operation Semut

Operation Semut was a series of reconnaissance operations carried out by Australia's Z Special Unit in 1945, during the final stages of World War II.

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Orion Pictures

Orion Releasing, LLC (doing business as Orion) is an American film production and distribution company owned by the Amazon MGM Studios subsidiary of Amazon.

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Pierre Schoendoerffer

Pierre Schoendoerffer (Pierre Schœndœrffer; 5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician.

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Return to Paradise (1953 film)

Return to Paradise is an American South Seas adventure drama film released by United Artists in 1953. Farewell to the King and Return to Paradise (1953 film) are films set in the 1940s and Pacific War films.

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Richard Morgan (actor)

Richard Howard Morgan (12 August 195823 December 2006) was an Australian actor.

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Robert Mitchum

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.

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Sarawak

Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.

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The Man Who Would Be King

"The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tom Harrisson

Major Tom Harnett Harrisson, DSO, OBE (26 September 1911 – 16 January 1976) was a British polymath.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Vestron Pictures

Vestron Pictures Inc. was an American film studio and distributor, a former division of Austin O. Furst, Jr.'s Vestron Inc., that is best known for their 1987 release of Dirty Dancing.

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Wayne Pygram

Wayne Pigram (born 13 October 1959), better known by his stage name Wayne Pygram, is an Australian actor, known for his role as Scorpius in the science fiction series Farscape (2000–2003) and the miniseries that followed, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004).

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_to_the_King

, World War II.

Farewell to the King, the Glossary

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See also

Films based on works by Pierre Schoendoerffer

Films directed by John Milius

Films set in Borneo

Films with screenplays by John Milius

References