Gunga Din
Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !
Production
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.
Trailers & Videos
Gunga Din (1939) Official Trailer - Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movie HD
Cast
Cary Grant
Archibald Cutter
Victor McLaglen
MacChesney
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Thomas Anthony Ballantine
Sam Jaffe
Gunga Din
Joan Fontaine
Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
Montagu Love
Colonel Weed
Robert Coote
Bertie Higginbotham
Abner Biberman
Chota
Lumsden Hare
Major Mitchell
Olin Francis
Fulad (uncredited)
Ann Evers
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Fay McKenzie
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Lal Chand Mehra
Jadoo (uncredited)
Roland Varno
Lt. Markham (uncredited)
Cecil Kellaway
Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield
Rudyard Kipling - Journalist
Charles Bennett
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
George Regas
Thug Chieftain (uncredited)
Joe McGuinn
(uncredited)
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Reviews
tmcd77
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!
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