Gunga Din

“Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !”

6.5(176)19391h 57m

AdventureWarActionComedy

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

Budget

$1.9M

Revenue

$2.8M

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Cast

Cary Grant

Archibald Cutter

Victor McLaglen

MacChesney

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Thomas Anthony Ballantine

Sam Jaffe

Gunga Din

Eduardo Ciannelli

Guru

Joan Fontaine

Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins

Montagu Love

Colonel Weed

Robert Coote

Bertie Higginbotham

Abner Biberman

Chota

Lumsden Hare

Major Mitchell

Leslie Sketchley

Corporal (uncredited)

Olin Francis

Fulad (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

tmcd77

1y ago

7.0

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 th...