Kim 1984

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Kim ★★½ 1984

Kim (Sheth) is a 15-year-old boy living by his wits on the streets of 1890s India. Trying to discover his true identity, Kim's befriended by a Buddhist monk who wishes the boy to be his disciple and a British spy, who trains him for a daring mission against the Russians. Rousing TV adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling novel. 135m/C VHS, DVD . Ravi Sheth, Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover; D: John Davies.