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Gunga Din

Gunga Din

6,5 /10 (183 Votes)
1939 EN 117 min

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.

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Release date

26/01/1939

Votes

183

Popularity

1.1

Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

117 min

Budget

$1,915,000

Revenue

$2,807,000

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tmcd77

2024-11-03

⭐ 7

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 s…

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