Kim (1950)

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NR 12/07/1950 (US) Adventure, Drama, Family 1h 53m

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Famed Spectacular Adventure Story Filmed Against Authentic Backgrounds in Mystic India The Greatest Spy Thriller of Them All!

Overview

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

Victor Saville

Director
Rudyard Kipling

Novel
Leon Gordon

Screenplay
Richard Schayer

Screenplay
Helen Deutsch

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Top Billed Cast

Errol Flynn

Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard
Dean Stockwell

Kim
Paul Lukas

Lama
Robert Douglas

Colonel Creighton
Thomas Gomez

Emissary
Cecil Kellaway

Hurree Chunder
Arnold Moss

Lurgan Sahib
Reginald Owen

Father Victor
Laurette Luez

Laluli
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OK, so perhaps Errol Flynn has gone to seed a little, but he still oozes charm and charisma as the rakish "Mahbub Ali" in this tale of Empire and intrigue. A young street-wise orphan "Kim" (Dean Stockwell) befriends the travelling lama Paul Lukas and using his wits and guile manages to find food - and spectacles - for his ageing mentor. Whilst travelling to find the old man's sacred river he is apprehended by the military who discover he is really an army brat and so is to be sent to a posh school into which he does not fit readily. His cleverness, mischief and repeated attempts to escape attra... read the rest.

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