Elephant Boy (1937)

Directors

Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda

Cast

Sabu, W.E. Holoway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes, Bruce Gordon

The story

Toomai (Sabu), a young boy growing up in India, longs to become a hunter. In the meantime, he helps his mahout (elephant driver) father with Kala Nag, a large elephant that has been in their family for four generations. Petersen (Walter Hudd) hires the father and Kala Nag, among others, for a large annual government roundup of wild elephants to be tamed and put to work.

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