Robert Flaherty and Zoltán Korda
Elephant Boy
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Robert Flaherty and Zoltán Korda shared best director honors at the Venice Film Festival for this charming translation of Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book story “Toomai of the Elephants.” A harmonious mix of its two filmmakers’ styles—Flaherty’s adeptness at ethnographic documentary meeting Korda’s taste for grand adventure—Elephant Boy also served as the breakthrough showcase for the thirteen-year-old Sabu, whose beaming performance as a young mahout leading the British on an expedition made him a major international star.
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Cast
- Sabu
- Toomai
- W. E. Holloway
- Father
- Walter Hudd
- Petersen
- Allan Jeayes
- Machua Appa
- Bruce Gordon
- Rham Lahl
- D. J. Williams
- Hunter
- Hyde White
- Commissioner
Credits
- Director
- Robert Flaherty
- Director
- Zoltán Korda
- Producer
- Alexander Korda
- Based on “Toomai of the Elephants” by
- Rudyard Kipling
- Screenplay
- John Collier
- Screenplay collaboration
- Akos Tolnay
- Screenplay collaboration
- Marcia De Silva
- Cinematography
- Osmond Borradaile
- Editor
- Charles Crichton
- Original music by
- John Greenwood
- Musical director
- Muir Matheson
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