Elephant Boy (film)
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Elephant Boy is a 1937 British adventure film starring Indian-born actor Sabu in his film debut.[2] Documentary filmmaker Robert J. 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 (1894).[3]
This article is about the 1937 film based on a Rudyard Kipling story. For the 1973 TV series of the same name and inspired by the same Kipling story, see Elephant Boy (TV series).
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Elephant Boy | |
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Directed by | Robert J. Flaherty Zoltan Korda |
Written by | Rudyard Kipling |
Screenplay by | John Collier Marcia De Silva Ákos Tolnay |
Based on | "Toomai of the Elephants", from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
Produced by | Alexander Korda |
Starring | Sabu W.E. Holloway Walter Hudd Alan Jeayes Bruce Gordon |
Cinematography | Osmond Borradaile |
Edited by | Charles Crichton |
Music by | John Greenwood |
Production company | |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates | 5 April 1937 (US) 9 April 1937 (UK) |
Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $2 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[1] |
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