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Gunga Din (1939)

NR 01/26/1939 (US) Adventure, War, Action, Comedy 1h 57m

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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.

George Stevens

Director
Joel Sayre

Screenplay
Fred Guiol

Screenplay
Charles MacArthur

Story
Ben Hecht

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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
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A review by tmcd77

60%

Written by tmcd77 on November 3, 2024

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 so... read the rest.

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