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Sabu
Toomai
W.E. Holloway
Toomai's Father
Walter Hudd
Petersen
Allan Jeayes
Machua Appa
Bruce Gordon
Rham Lahl
D.J. Williams
Hunter
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Commissioner
Iravatha
Kala Nag (uncredited)
Harry Lane
Bit Part (uncredited)
Udham Singh
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
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Written by CinemaSerf on Mon Jun 20 2022
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, ...
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Facts
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
- elephant
- expedition
- human animal relationship
- jungle
- india
- based on short story
- herd
- roundup
- child protagonist
- mahout
- asian elephant