---
title: 'Elephant Boy (1937)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Zoltan Korda'
released: '1937-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 80
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/elephant-boy-1937'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028827/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Elephant Boy (1937)

1937 · 80 min · Drama · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Elephant Boy is a 1937 British adventure film starring Indian-born actor Sabu in his film debut. Documentary filmmaker Robert 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, an 1894 collection of tales set in India.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Zoltan Korda](https://cinepixo.com/people/zoltan-korda), [Robert J. Flaherty](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-j-flaherty)
- **Screenplay:** [Akos Tolnay](https://cinepixo.com/people/akos-tolnay), [John Collier](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-collier-2)
- **Original Music Composer:** [John D. H. Greenwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-d-h-greenwood)
- **Producer:** [Alexander Korda](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-korda)
- **Director of Photography:** [Osmond Borradaile](https://cinepixo.com/people/osmond-borradaile)
- **Editor:** [Charles Crichton](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-crichton)

## Cast

- [Wilfrid Hyde-White](https://cinepixo.com/people/wilfrid-hyde-white)
- [D. J. Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/d-j-williams)
- [Allan Jeayes](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-jeayes)
- [Walter Hudd](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-hudd)
- [Bruce Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-gordon-2)
- [Sabu Dastagir](https://cinepixo.com/people/sabu-dastagir)

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