Movies by Sabu
As part of the cast:
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Savage Drums / Jungle Hell (1951)
Cast: Sabu, K.T. Stevens, Lita Baron …
Directed by: William Berke, Norman A. Cerf
Grown-up child star Sabu returns to the jungle in this pair of exotic adventure films: Savage Drums (1951) and Jungle Hell (1964), the latter of which is actually a conglomeration of…
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Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948)
Cast: Sabu, Wendell Corey, Joy Page …
Directed by: Byron Haskin
American doctor John Collins (Wendell Corey) agrees to a tiger hunt in India despite his anti-Indian prejudices. When he comes to know the residents of a Himalayan village who are being…
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Black Narcissus (1947)
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons …
Directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Secular matters consume five missionary nuns who head to the Himalayas to establish an Anglican school. In the meantime, the quintet's leader (Deborah Kerr) must grapple with the envy of…
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Cobra Woman (1944)
Cast: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu …
Directed by: Robert Siodmak
To rescue his recently kidnapped fiancée, Tollea (Maria Montez), Ramu (Jon Hall) boldly sets off for inhospitable Cobra Island. It is in this exotic locale that Tollea learns the…
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Arabian Nights (1942)
Cast: Sabu, Jon Hall, Maria Montez …
Directed by: John Rawlins
Haroun (Jon Hall) and Kamar (Leif Erickson) are brothers fighting each other for the right to rule Turkey and win the hand of the dancer Scheherazade (Maria Montez). In their royal battle,…
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Hollywood Un-Leashed (1942)
Cast: Paul Kelly, Lassie, Ann Doran …
Directed by: Harold F. Kress, Ken Annakin, Zoltan Korda …
Break out the liver treats for this collection of three classic animal-themed films. In Jack London's Call of the Wild, Charlton Heston stars as an adventurer during the heady days of…
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Jungle Book (1942)
Cast: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen …
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
After being lost in the jungle as a child, Mowgli is raised by a she-wolf and learns to communicate with the animals. When he returns to his home village, he must deal with the treachery of…
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King Lear / The Forgotten Village / Jungle Book (1941)
Cast: Orson Welles, Natasha Parry, Margaret Phillips …
Directed by: Andrew McCullough, Herbert Kline, Alexander Hammid …
This collection of films based on literary classics features stories from far afield, including Shakespeare's "King Lear," John Steinbeck's The Forgotten Village and Rudyard…
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The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Cast: Conrad Veidt, John Justin, Sabu …
Directed by: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan …
Banished from Bagdad by evil wizard Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), blind Prince Ahmad (John Justin) teams with plucky boy-thief Abu (Sabu, in his signature role) to return to the royal palace,…
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The Drum (1938)
Cast: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey …
Directed by: Zoltan Korda
After the British sign a treaty with an Indian Khan, the ruler is murdered by his treacherous brother, although his young son, Prince Azim, escapes. The rebels intend to slay the British…
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Elephant Boy (1937)
Cast: Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd …
Directed by: Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda
In a riveting debut performance, 13-year-old Sabu stars in this story of an Indian boy who leads a British team to a herd of wild elephants. Based on a Rudyard Kipling book, the film combines…