Eclipse Series 30: Sabu! (Elephant Boy, The Drum, Jungle Book) (Criterion Collection) Reviews

Popular Indian child star Sabu (born Selar Shaik) was discovered by director Robert Flaherty working as a stable boy for an Indian maharajah and cast in Flaherty’s first fiction film Elephant Boy. For the next several years, British moviegoers, like their American counterparts viewing Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin, and Judy Garland, watched him grow up in a series of films produced in both England and America. Criterion’s latest Eclipse box offers us three of his most popular early works made under the production hand of Alexander Korda. These three, along with The Thief of Bagdad (already on a spectacular Criterion DVD) constitute the prime moments of Sabu’s early career.

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