Archibald Cutter
Cary Grant
Archibald Cutter
Gunga Din
“Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !”
6.5
1939
1h 57m
AdventureWarActionComedy
Director: George Stevens
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.
Trailer
Gunga Din (1939) Official Trailer - Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Movie HD
Cast
MacChesney
Victor McLaglen
MacChesney
Thomas Anthony Ballantine
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Thomas Anthony Ballantine
Gunga Din
Sam Jaffe
Gunga Din
Guru
Eduardo Ciannelli
Guru
Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
Joan Fontaine
Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
Colonel Weed
Montagu Love
Colonel Weed
Bertie Higginbotham
Robert Coote
Bertie Higginbotham
Chota
Abner Biberman
Chota
Major Mitchell
Lumsden Hare
Major Mitchell
Corporal (uncredited)
Leslie Sketchley
Corporal (uncredited)
Fulad (uncredited)
Olin Francis
Fulad (uncredited)
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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