Elephant Boy (film)
Elephant Boy is a 1937 British adventure film starring Sabu in his film debut. Documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty, who produced some of the remarkable Indian footage, and supervising director Zoltan Korda, who completed the film, won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival. The film was made at the London Films studios at Denham, and in Mysore, India, and is based on the story Toomai of the Elephants from Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book 1894.
Petersen Walter Hudd hires the father and Kala Nag, among others, for a large annual government roundup of wild elephants to be tamed and put to work. Amused by Toomai and learning that he has no one but his father to look after him, Petersen allows the boy to come too.Strangely, no elephants have been seen in the region in a while, so Petersen has staked his reputation on a guess that they will be found further north. However, six weeks of hunting prove fruitless. He is ready to give up, but his righthand man, Machua Appa Allan Jeayes, persuades him to keep hunting for another month. When the other hired natives learn of Toomais ambition, they mock him, telling him that he will become a hunter only when he sees the elephants dance a myth. ........
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