Gunga Din

Name: Gunga Din
Genre: Adventure, War, Action, Comedy
Released: 1939-01-26
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 6.503

★ 6,5 /10 (191 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

191

Popularity

3.2

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Genres

Adventure War Action Comedy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

117 min

Budget

$1,915,000

Revenue

$2,807,000

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

Lumsden Hare

Major Mitchell

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Leslie Sketchley

Corporal (uncredited)

Olin Francis

Fulad (uncredited)

Ann Evers

Girl at Party (uncredited)

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Audrey Manners

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Fay McKenzie

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Lal Chand Mehra

Jadoo (uncredited)

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Clive Morgan

Lancer Captain (uncredited)

Roland Varno

Lt. Markham (uncredited)

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Frank Leyva

Merchant (uncredited)

Cecil Kellaway

Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)

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George Du Count

Pandu Lal (uncredited)

Reginald Sheffield

Rudyard Kipling - Journalist

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Bryant Fryer

Scottish Sergeant (uncredited)

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Charles Bennett

Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

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Jamiel Hasson

Thug Chieftain (uncredited)

George Regas

Thug Chieftain (uncredited)

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John Alban

(uncredited)

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Joe De La Cruz

(uncredited)

Joe McGuinn

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Richard Farnsworth

(uncredited)

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Sam Harris

(uncredited)

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Thom Metzetti

(uncredited)

Art Mix

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Satini Pualoa

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Allen Schute

(uncredited)

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Paul Singh

(uncredited)

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Tom Tamarez

(uncredited)

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Carlie Taylor

(uncredited)

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Bruce Wyndham

(uncredited)

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Stuart Hall

Party Guest (uncredited)

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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 s…

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