Elephant Boy (film)

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).
Elephant Boy
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert J. Flaherty
Zoltan Korda
Written byRudyard Kipling
Screenplay byJohn Collier
Marcia De Silva
Ákos Tolnay
Based on"Toomai of the Elephants", from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Produced byAlexander Korda
StarringSabu
W.E. Holloway
Walter Hudd
Alan Jeayes
Bruce Gordon
CinematographyOsmond Borradaile
Edited byCharles Crichton
Music byJohn Greenwood
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
  • 5 April 1937 (1937-04-05) (US)
  • 9 April 1937 (1937-04-09) (UK)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[1]

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]

  1. ^ Cohn, Lawrence (15 October 1990). "All-Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. p. M-156. ISSN 0042-2738.
  2. ^ "Elephant Boy (1937) - Robert Flaherty, Zoltan Korda - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  3. ^ "Elephant Boy (1937) - Notes - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.