Elephant Boy (1937)
1937 · Feature film · 78 min · dir. Zoltan Korda
- Adventure
- Drama
- Family
Synopsis
Elephant Boy is a 1937 British adventure film starring Indian-born actor Sabu in his film debut. Documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty, who produced some of the 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, an 1894 collection of tales set…
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Details
- Director
- Zoltan Korda
- Writer
- John Collier
- Composer
- John Greenwood
- Cinematography
- Osmond Borradaile
- Studio
- London Films Productions
- Released
- 1937-03-12
- Running time
- 78 minutes
Cast & crew
Zoltan Korda Director
Sabu- W.E. Holloway
Walter Hudd
Allan Jeayes
Bruce Gordon
D.J. Williams
Wilfrid Hyde-White- Iravatha
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Charming, old fashioned film about a boy and the elephant he loves · Robert B. Livingston · 2012-06-30
This is simply a wonderful film which should be on any good "Best Films at the Internet Archive" list. There are many astonishing scenes of elephants in India, and the little boy, Sabu, is charming.
★★★★ · Good movie · The Bridge · 2012-05-14
Saw this about three times, when it first came out I was enthralled with it. Sabu had me walking and riding along with him every inch of the way. Nice story, put a dog in place of the elephant, and you have a boy and his dog. Take a look at it, I think you will probably enjoy it.
