Kim
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.
Plot
Kim, an orphan boy in 1885 India during the British Raj, occasionally works for his friend Mahbub Ali, 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.
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author | Rudyard Kipling |
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contentLocation | India |
director | Victor Saville |
editor | George Boemler |
genre | adventure drama historical |
keywords | boarding school british raj british soldier buddhism buddhist end forced to kill grand trunk road horse trader injured lama murder red bull regiment river secret agent serve set up summer vacation tibet train travel young boy |
musicBy | André Previn |
producer | Leon Gordon |
productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
publisher | Loews Cineplex Entertainment |
theme | spy |