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Kim is a american film of genre Drama directed by Victor Saville released in USA on 26 january 1951 with Errol Flynn
Kim (1950)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 26 january 1951
Length 1h53
Directed by Victor Saville
OriginUSA
Themes Spy films
Rating64%
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.
The film starred Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, and Paul Lukas. The music score was by André Previn. The film was shot on location in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India, as well as the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, California, due to its resemblance to the Khyber Pass. Of particular interest is the location filming at La Martiniere College in Lucknow.
Synopsis
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 Russian-backed plot to instigate a rebellion.Actors
Errol Flynn
(Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard)
Dean Stockwell
(Kim)
Paul Lukas
(Lama)
Robert Douglas
(Colonel Creighton)
Thomas Gomez
(Emissary)
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