Kenner / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; an M and M Production ; screen play by Harold Clemins and John Loring ; produced by Mary Phillips Murray ; directed by Steve Sekely.
Jim Brown (Kenner); Madlyn Rhue (Anasuya); Robert Coote (Henderson); Ricky Cordell (Saji); Charles Horvath (Tom Jordan). John Loring was a pseudonym for blacklisted screenwriter Robert L. Richards. Based on a story by Mary Phillips Murray. Filmed on location in Bombay, India. This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and DVD drives.
Summary:
"Roy Kenner, an American seafarer whose partner was murdered in Singapore, arrives in Bombay to search for the killer, dope smuggler Tom Jordan. While combing the city, Kenner is befriended by 9-year-old Saji, a native boy desperate to find his American father, unaware that the man abandoned his mother without ever marrying her. When Kenner is drugged by Jordan's associate, Henderson, and is being led to two waiting killers, Saji inadvertently causes a distraction that diverts Kenner. As a result, the narcotic has become ineffective by the time Kenner reaches his boat; and he is able to outwit Jordan, Henderson, and the two henchmen by diving overboard and remaining underwater until his would-be assassins are convinced that he has drowned. As Kenner surfaces, Saji and his mother, Anasuya, a Hindu entertainer, arrive and bring him to their house to recuperate. There, love develops between Anasuya and Kenner, while Saji gradually begins to look upon Kenner as his father. But tragedy strikes: Kenner chases Jordan through a railroad yard, and Anasuya, who has been following them, is killed by an oncoming train. After the funeral, Kenner learns that Jordan is a lover of cricket fights, and he uses Saji's pet insect to gain admittance to the secret place where the matches are held. Once they are inside, Saji is compelled to enter his cricket in a contest and then cannot bring himself to leave his pet when Kenner chases Jordan out of the place and engages him in a death struggle atop a building. When Saji's cricket is victorious, the boy runs out and discovers that Kenner has also won his battle with Jordan. At last Saji finds a father; Kenner takes the boy back to the United States with him"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970.
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