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Elephant Boy is a British film of genre Drama directed by Robert Flaherty released in USA on 5 april 1937 with Sabu
Elephant Boy (1937)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 5 april 1937
Length 1h25
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un tigre, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Rating63%
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 Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894).
Synopsis
Toomai (Sabu), a young boy growing up in India, longs to become a hunter. In the meantime, he helps his mahout (elephant driver) father with Kala Nag, a large elephant that has been in their family for four generations.Actors
Sabu
(Toomai)
Walter Hudd
(Petersen)
Wilfrid Hyde-White
(Commissioner)
Allan Jeayes
(Machua Appa)
Bruce Gordon
(Rham Lahl)
Bruce Gordon
(Rham Lahl)
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