Kim "Cult"

Kim "Cult"The boy Kim knows how to scrounge up a hot meal in India's bustling cities, how to scamper catlike across rooftops, and disguise himself as a local and conceal his Anglo heritage. To Kim, these are just ways to be free. To colonial British intelligence, they're skills it knows will be useful when it makes Kim a spy. Like Gunga Din, Captains Courageous and The Man Who Would Be King, Kim belongs to the treasury of films based on Rudyard Kipling's works.

is extraordinary

The Power to control minds

Directed by Blake Edwards and adapted from an early novel by Michael Crichton (writing under a pseudonym)

And they're the kinds of stories that make the tabloid's reporters think they've heard and seen it all

and tragedy ensues

a compelling john Garfield in one of his finest early roles

you may think - unless the lips belong to screen goddess Greta Garbo

blocking access to tradesmen's shops

Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman

portrays Marjorie's proper mum

costarring Gail Patrick and Ian Hunter

So when he stumbles onto a British-owned sugar plantation