Elephant Boy

The film moves leisurely, but with rare charm and visual interest.

Fiction and documentary footage rub shoulders uneasily, but the latter (shot by Flaherty in India) is vividly watchable.

...as in all Flaherty films, the camera becomes so intimate as to reveal the very soul of the subject. If elephants have souls, they're in that film.

Oone of those rare pictures that are made to please everybody, and actually succeed in doing it.