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Kim (1984)
An abomination
This is quite possibly the worst movie ever made. If you love Kipling's book, do not watch this movie, it will ruin it for you forever. Once you see this dreadful trash, you cannot unsee it. 6'2" tall Brit Peter O'Toole plays the 4'9" Tibetan Yellow Hat lama wearing a $5 bald wig, and was reportedly so drunk during the filming that he often fell down and forgot his lines. Absolutely awful, with production values which make Plan 9 From Outer Space look good. Mahbub Ali is another horrendous disappointment. For some reason, film makers feel a compulsive need to make all Pashtun characters look like drag queens in gypsy costumes. Instead of a wily, dangerous hillman, Mahbub Ali looks like a portly flamenco dancer doing a routine on a cruise ship with a lot of gaily colored scarves attached to him. This film is so bad, it's hard to believe the filmmakers were not intentionally making a parody of an Ed Woods film.