Gunga Din
Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !
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1/26/1939Runtime
117 minsOverview
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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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$1,915,000Revenue
$2,807,000Homepage
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A swashbuckling romp through colonial India that prioritizes spectacle and camaraderie over realism, with Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. delivering charismatic banter amid increasingly elaborate action sequences. It's propulsive adventure cinema designed for pure entertainment, though viewed now it carries the uncomfortable trappings of its imperial perspective.
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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
Leslie Sketchley
Corporal (uncredited)
Olin Francis
Fulad (uncredited)
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