Gunga Din

Unrated

1/26/19391h 57m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure ! ~

Overview:

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

Director:

George Stevens

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$1,915,000.00

Revenue:

$2,807,000.00

Key words:

army
british empire
uprising
soldier
thuggee uprising
19th century

Cast

Cary Grant

~ as ~

Archibald Cutter

Victor McLaglen

~ as ~

MacChesney

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

~ as ~

Thomas Anthony Ballantine

Sam Jaffe

~ as ~

Gunga Din

Eduardo Ciannelli

~ as ~

Guru

Joan Fontaine

~ as ~

Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins

Montagu Love

~ as ~

Colonel Weed

Robert Coote

~ as ~

Bertie Higginbotham

Abner Biberman

~ as ~

Chota

Lumsden Hare

~ as ~

Major Mitchell

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Reviews (1)

t
tmcd77
Written 8 month(s) ago
7
Take Indiana Jones, mix in a little Zulu, and add a splash of The Man Who Would be King. Replace Michael Cain and Harrison Ford with Cary Grant, and what do you get?

Answer - A film that stands the test of time.

Grants comedic performance is totally on point, the punch bowl scene in particular having me in stitches. Based of various poems by Radyard Kiplin, this movie tells the story of three British army officers against a cult of indian strangler assassins. The eponymous Gunga Din being their water carrier (spoiler alert) who saves the day.

Certainly Lucas and Spielberg deserve some plagerism claims. Temple of Doom being very near the knuckle on a few scenes!