Kim
Famed Spectacular Adventure Story Filmed Against Authentic Backgrounds in Mystic India The Greatest Spy Thriller of Them All!
1950 | 113m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Victor Saville |
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| Writer: | Helen Deutsch, Rudyard Kipling, Leon Gordon, Richard Schayer |
| Staring: |
| During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 07, 1950 |
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| Director: | Victor Saville |
| Writer: | Helen Deutsch, Rudyard Kipling, Leon Gordon, Richard Schayer |
| Genres: | Family, Adventure, Drama |
| Keywords | spy, based on novel or book, british empire, beggar, orphan, india, holy man, cobra, street kid, 19th century, british raj, uttar pradesh |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Errol Flynn | Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard |
| Dean Stockwell | Kim |
| Paul Lukas | Lama |
| Robert Douglas | Colonel Creighton |
| Thomas Gomez | Emissary |
| Cecil Kellaway | Hurree Chunder |
| Arnold Moss | Lurgan Sahib |
| Reginald Owen | Father Victor |
| Laurette Luez | Laluli |
| Richard Hale | Hassan Bey |
| Roman Toporow | The Russian |
| Ivan Triesault | The Russian |
| Richard Lupino | Sentry |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Helen Deutsch | Screenplay |
| Victor Saville | Director |
| André Previn | Original Music Composer |
| Rudyard Kipling | Novel |
| Bronislau Kaper | Original Music Composer |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Sydney Guilaroff | Hair Designer |
| Douglas Shearer | Recording Supervision |
| A. Arnold Gillespie | Special Effects |
| Leon Gordon | Screenplay |
| Richard Schayer | Screenplay |
| William V. Skall | Director of Photography |
| George Boemler | Editor |
| Hans Peters | Art Direction |
| Fred Valles | Costume Design |
| John Truwe | Makeup Artist |
| Hugh Hunt | Assistant Set Decoration |
| Arthur Krams | Assistant Set Decoration |
| Warren Newcombe | Special Effects |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Leon Gordon | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 11 | 25 | 6 |
| 2024 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 5 |
| 2024 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 6 |
| 2024 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 3 |
| 2024 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 3 |
| 2024 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
Trending Position
OK, so perhaps Errol Flynn has gone to seed a little, but he still oozes charm and charisma as the rakish "Mahbub Ali" in this tale of Empire and intrigue. A young street-wise orphan "Kim" (Dean Stockwell) befriends the travelling lama Paul Lukas and using his wits and guile manages to find food - a ... nd spectacles - for his ageing mentor. Whilst travelling to find the old man's sacred river he is apprehended by the military who discover he is really an army brat and so is to be sent to a posh school into which he does not fit readily. His cleverness, mischief and repeated attempts to escape attract the attention of the spymasters and soon his adventures really begin as he joins the perilous effort to thwart Russian Imperial ambitions in British Imperial India. This is a great, fun, action adventure based on a super boys-own story from Rudyard Kipling. The colour is the stuff you could bathe in; the pace well directed by Victor Saville and all-in-all, it has well stood the 70 years since it was made.