Kim (1950)

Directed by

Victor Saville

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An orphan boy in British India gets recruited by British agents to spy on Russian operatives. He travels across colorful landscapes while learning the trade of espionage.

adventurousbrightexoticspiritedlivelysuspensefulold-fashioned

What happens

Kim is a 1950 adventure film made in Technicolor by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 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 1901 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, with some parts being in present-day Uttarakhand, 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. The film is set within the Great Game, a political and diplomatic confrontation between the British Empire and the Russian Empire. In the film, an orphan boy is trained as a spy by agents of the British Raj, and tasked with maintaining surveillance of two Russian spies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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