Why it may be worth watching
- Gunga Din combines Adventure and War elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr..
- Viewers currently rate it 6.5/10 from 194 votes.
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Gunga Din
Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !
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.
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Cast
Cary GrantArchibald Cutter
Victor McLaglenMacChesney
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.Thomas Anthony Ballantine
Sam JaffeGunga Din
Eduardo CiannelliGuru
Joan FontaineEmmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
Montagu LoveColonel Weed
Robert CooteBertie Higginbotham
Abner BibermanChota
Lumsden HareMajor Mitchell
Leslie SketchleyCorporal (uncredited)
Olin FrancisFulad (uncredited)
Ann EversGirl at Party (uncredited)
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Who may enjoy it
Best suited to viewers looking for Adventure, War, Action.
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Themes and topics
armybritish empireuprisingsoldierthuggee uprising19th century
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tmcd77External review ·
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.
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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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