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Gunga Din
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.
1939 · Directed by George Stevens · 117 min · Adventure · War · Action · History · 10 frames
Tagline
Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !
Crew
- Screenplay: Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Howard Hawks
- Cinematography: Joseph H. August
- Edited by: Henry Berman, John Lockert
- Music: Alfred Newman
- Produced by: George Stevens
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
- Joan Fontaine as Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
- Montagu Love as Colonel Weed
- Robert Coote as Bertie Higginbotham
- Abner Biberman as Chota
- Lumsden Hare as Major Mitchell
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Hindi
- Studios: RKO Radio Pictures
- Budget: $1,915,000
- Box office: $2,807,000
- Themes: army, british empire, uprising, soldier, thuggee uprising, 19th century
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