Kim

Kim is a young orphan boy, the son of a British soldier by the name of O'Hara who plays - and survives - pretending to be an Indian, He joins a Tibetan lama in search of a holy river but when a British Regimental chaplain discover he's a white boy, he's put into a school for the orphans of soldiers and eventually St. Xavier's, an expensive private paid for his friend the lama. He doesn't fit in very well however and when the long summer holiday arrives he runs off. When he overhears a plot to kill his friend Mahbub Ali, a spy in the employ of British Colonel Creighton, Kim saves him and is recruited to play the great game. When one of Creighton's operatives is killed, Kim goes off on his own and discovers a Russian plot to establish a military presence in the north.