Kim (1950 film)

Kim is a 1950 adventure film made in Technicolor by MGM. It was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Leon Gordon from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch, Leon Gordon and Richard Schayer, based on the classic novel of the same name by Rudyard Kipling.

Kim Dean Stockwell, an orphan boy in 1885 India during the British Raj, works at times for his friend Mahbub Ali Errol Flynn, a roguish horse trader who is also a secret agent for the British. Mahbub Ali becomes aware of a Russianbacked plot to instigate a rebellion.Meanwhile, Kim encounters an elderly Buddhist lama Paul Lukas from Tibet, who is on a quest to find the River of the Arrow, whose waters will cleanse him spiritually. Mahbub Ali has the young boy become the kindly priests chela or disciple so that he can deliver a message to Colonel Creighton Robert Douglas, Mahbub Alis superior. On the journey along the Grand Trunk Road, the two travelers grow to love each other. Kim learns to beg passersby for coins. ........

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