Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., loosely based on the 1890 poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection Soldiers Three.

Gunga Din: Directed by George Stevens. With Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe. In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

"Gunga Din" is a classic 1939 adventure film directed by George Stevens. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's poem of the same name, the film is set in British India and follows the story of three British sergeants and their water bearer, Gunga Din, who dreams of becoming a soldier.

Aug 18, 2024 · Gunga finds out he is regarded as a traitor by his countrymen, and Cutter, as well as Sergeants MacChesney and Ballantine, is held captive by the Thuggees in a bid to force the British to leave India.

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.

Gunga Din (1939): Produced and directed by George Stevens, RKO’s action-adventure classic pays homage to British colonialism while bringing to mind Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s Broadway hit The Front Page. Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Victor McLaglen star.

Dec 7, 2004 · Unexpectedly coming to the rescue of our three heroes-not to mention every white man, woman and child in the region-is humble water carrier Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe), who aspires to become the regimental trumpeter.

The groundwork by Hawks goes right into His Girl Friday, George Stevens takes over the spectacle in a mélange of sweep and jocularity. (A Fordian officers' ball is mined for Hal Roach gags, down to the wilting flower in the spiked punch bowl.)

Gunga Din finds classical Hollywood cinema at its most seductive and its most pernicious. Gunga Din screens tonight, October 7, at Film Forum as part of the series “George Stevens.”

In 19th century British India, three sergeants, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Victor McLaglen, with the aid of faithful waterboy Sam Jaffe, take on Eduardo Cianelli’s nasty high priest of the goddess Kali.