Elephant Boy (1937)

NR03/12/1937Adventure, Drama, Family1h 22m
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Overview

In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Sabu

    Toomai

  2. W.E. Holloway

    Toomai's Father

  3. Cast 1

    Walter Hudd

    Petersen

  4. Cast 1

    Allan Jeayes

    Machua Appa

  5. Cast 1

    Bruce Gordon

    Rham Lahl

  6. D.J. Williams

    Hunter

  7. Cast 1

    Wilfrid Hyde-White

    Commissioner

  8. Iravatha

    Kala Nag (uncredited)

  9. Harry Lane

    Bit Part (uncredited)

This has something of a documentary about it as Sabu portrays the young "Toomai" - the "Elephant Boy" based on the Rudyard Kipling story published in 1893. When an elephant goes on the rampage, only the young boy - the son and grandson of a mahout - can calm it down and in so doing attracts the attention of the leader of a hunting party "Petersen" (Walter Hudd) who agrees to take him on a hunt. What now ensues is a series of adventures that cause the boy to grow up quickly - and sometimes quite harshly. It's one of those films that rather glorifies the Raj and objectifies the local population,...