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...India last week, an official of the Dalai Lama's court described the bloodless conquest of Tibet by the Chinese Communists. His story could be read as a sort of parable of how Communism vanquishes the isolated, the timid and the unwary...
...movie keeps fairly close to Kipling's original plot. Kim is the orphaned son of a British officer in India, who roams around as an Indian boy "because they send white boys to school." As the helper of a traveling Lama, Kim becomes involved in the Great Game: Injuh. On the other team in the Great Game are the Russians, who sneak around fomenting anti-British revolts. Kim and his buddy, Errol Flynn, manage to rack up quite a few points for our side; Kim by spying and carrying messages, and Flynn by knifing, shooting, and rolling rocks down...
Dean Stockwell is Kim, the Little Friend of All the World. When he is saucy and conniving, he is almost convincing. But when he is serious, as in the mawkish Wheel-of-Life discussions with his Lama, he becomes a male Margaret O'Brien. In addition to his point-scoring activities, Errol Flynn also swings through a few harems as a red-bearded horse trader seeking recreation...
News of the December defeat in Korea swept like a winter blizzard through Tibet's remote mountain passes, where another Red Chinese army is invading. Communist prestige soared. Tibet's boy ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, last fortnight left his capital, Lhasa, on what the Indian government representative in Tibet described as "an official tour." Indian newspapers reported that the Lama was planning to set up a new seat of government at Yatung, a town in the Chumbi valley just across the Himalayan divide separating Tibet from the Indian-protected state of Sikkim...
...script steers mercifully clear of a love story, and even Flynn takes a back seat to the boy. Kim is still the India-born British orphan who has grown up as a sun-bleached native urchin in the clutter of Lahore. His best friends: a wandering Tibetan lama (Paul Lukas) and Horse Trader Flynn, who doubles as a spy. Recognized by the British, who pack him off to a pukka school, Kim plays hooky, picks up some tutoring in espionage and pits his wits against the Russians who are stirring up trouble on the other side of the Khyber Pass...