Gunga Din (1939)

NR01/26/1939Adventure, War, Action, Comedy1h 57m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Cary Grant

    Archibald Cutter

  2. Cast 1

    Victor McLaglen

    MacChesney

  3. Cast 1

    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    Thomas Anthony Ballantine

  4. Cast 1

    Sam Jaffe

    Gunga Din

  5. Cast 1

    Eduardo Ciannelli

    Guru

  6. Cast 1

    Joan Fontaine

    Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins

  7. Cast 1

    Montagu Love

    Colonel Weed

  8. Cast 1

    Robert Coote

    Bertie Higginbotham

  9. Cast 1

    Abner Biberman

    Chota

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 s...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$1,915,000.00

Revenue $2,807,000.00

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