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Director:

Victor Saville

Writers:

Leon Gordon (screenplay) and
Helen Deutsch (screenplay) ...
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Contact:

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Release Date:

26 January 1951 (USA) more

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Family more

Tagline:

M-G-M Presents One Of The Year's Biggest! more

Plot:

Kim, a young boy living on his own on the streets of India, is actually the son of a British officer... more | add synopsis

Plot Keywords:

India | Spy | Lama | Goat | Cobra
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User Comments:

If you like the book, you'll like the film. more (21 total)


Cast

  (Complete credited 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

Richard Hale ... Hassan Bey - Narrator
Roman Toporow ... Russian
Ivan Triesault ... Russian
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Additional Details

Runtime:

113 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

UK:U | USA:Passed | USA:Approved (PCA #14535) (original rating) | USA:G (re-rating) (1971) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Originally bought as a property for Freddie Bartholomew in 1938. Production was so far under way (including Bartholomew posing with Indian elephants for newsreel cameras), that the project was eventually abandoned to save costs. more

Goofs:

Continuity: Kim shouts for the driver to stop and the cart comes to a skidding halt. The camera cuts away for dialogue between Kim and his schoolmate and then back to the cart stopped on the street. The horse manure that was beneath the cart when they stopped is suddenly gone and the street is clean. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Arrebato (1980) more

Soundtrack:

D'Ye Ken John Peel? more


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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
If you like the book, you'll like the film., 7 February 2003
Author: billyfish from Monrovia, Liberia

Fans of The Great Game in general and Rudyard Kipling's Kim specifically will enjoy this film, I think, especially if they've read or re-read the book recently. While it is true the film shows its age, if you're not a nit-picker, you should remain engaged. Stockwell does a good job with the title character of Kim, who is the central character, just as he is in the book. While The Great Game swirls around Kim, the story is one of his education in the arts of spying and his devotion to his holy man. The courage portrayed by characters Mahbub Ali (played by Errol Flynn) and Hurree Chunder is reminiscent of the exploits of the real-life locals who served in the Indian Secret Service in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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