Gunga Din (1939)

Directed by

George Stevens

Genre

adventure film, war film, ghost film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 184 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three British sergeants and their water bearer team up to fight a murderous cult in colonial India. The story follows their adventures and battles against the Thugs.

adventurouslivelylight-heartedfast-pacedswashbucklingheroicexotic

What happens

Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., loosely based on the 1890 poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thugs, a resurgent Indian murder cult, in colonial British India. The supporting cast features Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, and in the title role, Sam Jaffe. The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen, John Colton, William Faulkner, Vincent Lawrence, Dudley Nichols, and Anthony Veiller. In 1999, Gunga Din was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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