Kim is a 1950 adventure film made 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 by Rudyard Kipling.
The film starred Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell (as Kim), Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway and Reginald Owen. The music score was by André Previn. The film was shot on location in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India, as well as Lone Pine, California. Of particular interest is the location filming at La Martiniere College in Lucknow.
Kim is a 1984 British television film directed by John Howard Davies and based on Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim. The film stars Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Nadira, Jalal Agha, Raj Kapoor and Ravi Sheth in the title role.
m: Trust a snake before a whore, and a whore before Mahbub Ali!
ther Victor: What's the matter? Don't you want to be a white boy?
m: [Speaking to the unborn child in Indra's belly] Do you not want to be born, little brother? It's really not so bad out here. All you have to do is be quick - and a little bit wicked - and you'll be as happy as Kim.
Originally bought as a property for Freddie Bartholomew in 1938. Production was so far under way (including Bartholomew posing with Indian elephants for newsreel cameras), that the project was eventually abandoned to save costs.
