Gratitude is good for the ear, but a rupee is better for the stomach.
A Technicolor extravaganza filled with glorious India location footage, retelling Kipling's epic tale of the The Great Game, played by Errol Flynn as a ginger-bearded Muslim horse-trader spy, Dean Stockwell as the orphaned white-boy passing himself off as an Indian beggar, and Paul Lukas as a Tibetan Lama who looks like an English Toff in a red bathrobe.
Had I seen this at age 9 or 10, it would've absolutely changed my life with its enticing picture of a young lad exchanging cultural identities literally as easily as one might change a pair of clothes. After all, that was a somewhat accurate reflection of my own…