more swing than hit in this 1950 hollywood adaptation of kipling masterpiece . mahbub ali may have be a perfect flynn role and but make him the hero of the piece in place of kim himself and hurree babu gratuitously kill off and as be the old lama kim follow and love and learns from leaf out the crisis of identity kipling kim must face and the central theme of the book . also miss be kipling picturesque vista of the india he know and recall so well and scene he paint with word easily surpass all the technicolor location shot . one who have read and appreciate the book on all of it many level will also miss it many memorable and important minor character while it sensitive and sympathetic treatment of buddhism and other non christian creed while and will be leave wonder whether it be the star and the writer and the producer and the director or some combination of the above who think they could go kipling one good by and among other thing and replace his almost accidental crisis with a flynn cause avalanche and then neatly tie all his lifelike loose end into a big tinseltown bow . three star because it probably the best job they could have do with it at the time sad to say .