I remember finding a copy of the novel Kim in my home when I was a kid.\u00a0 Not knowing much about colonial India at the time some of the references were obscure to me.\u00a0 But the story was engaging.\u00a0 Many years later I saw the motion picture and enjoyed the story all over again.\u00a0 Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell carry most of this movie on their shoulders with Stockwell as the title character, an orphan son of a British soldier living as a native boy in the streets of India and Flynn as a spy for the British Intelligence Office known as Mahbub Ali, The Red Beard.\u00a0 And in the Flynn\u2019s affable relationship with the boy, it reminds me of his performance in the 1937 movie \u201cThe Prince and the Pauper\u201d where his character befriends and ultimately saves the Prince of Wales from his misadventures.<\/p>\n
This story is a cloak and dagger spy story of the \u201cThe Great Game\u201d between England and Russia in Asia and also a coming-of-age story for the boy.\u00a0 He discovers his roots and makes some valuable friends.\u00a0 He learns different lessons about himself from sources as different as a Tibetan Lama and a British Intelligence Officer.<\/p>\n
And along the way he shows himself to be brave, resourceful and reliable to all those he befriends.\u00a0 The story is one of Kipling\u2019s best and has a fantasy feel to it that belies the 19th<\/sup> century time frame it exists in.\u00a0 Stockwell and Flynn and the supporting cast are excellent in this tale and it is a throwback to the 1930s and 40s when movies of this sort were more common.\u00a0 And the portrayal of life in colonial India with Europeans enjoying their white privilege would be completely unacceptable to woke viewers so of course knowing it would outrage those losers makes it that much more amusing to watch.<\/p>\n Read the book if you haven\u2019t and then watch the movie.\u00a0 Both are highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember finding a copy of the novel Kim in my home when I was a kid.\u00a0 Not knowing much about colonial India at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,237],"tags":[749,1504,2953,2834,2957,745,43,38,1355,746],"class_list":["post-13853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-reviews","tag-british-empire","tag-british-raj","tag-dean-stockwell","tag-errol-flynn","tag-kim","tag-kipling","tag-movie-review","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-rudyard-kipling"],"yoast_head":"\n