- HD 1080
- Runtime: 117m.
- Status: Released
- 0
- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: John Milius
- Stars: Nigel Havers, Frank McRae, Gerry Lopez, Nick Nolte, Marilyn Tokuda
- keywords: guerrilla warfare, paradise, island, shipwreck, desertion, world war ii, infantry, u.s. navy, tribe, borneo, jungle
- Production_studio: Orion Pictures, Cine Location Services, David Hannay Productions, Film Plan Financing Number 1, Ruddy Morgan Productions, Southeast Asia Film Location Services Sdn. Bhd.
- Slogan: In the midst of war, one man vanished into the jungle, and emerged as king.
- The Farewell to the King is featured in the top rankings of 1989
- #16 in Top Adventure Movies of 1989
- #14 in Top War Movies of 1989
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.