Gunga Din

Release Date: 1939-01-26

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.

Rating: 6.549 / 10

Cast

Cary Grant

as Archibald Cutter

Victor McLaglen

as MacChesney

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

as Thomas Anthony Ballantine

Sam Jaffe

as Gunga Din

Eduardo Ciannelli

as Guru

Crew

George Stevens - Director
Mel Berns - Makeup Department Head
Armand Triller - Makeup Artist
Rudyard Kipling - Poem
Ben Hecht - Story

Reviews

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