Gunga Din (1939)
Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !
117 min
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.
- Release date
- January 24, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $1,915,000
- Box office
- $2,807,000
Trailer
Cast
- Cary Grant as Cutter
- Joan Fontaine as Emmy
- Victor McLaglen as MacChesney
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Ballantine
- Sam Jaffe as Gunga Din
- Eduardo Ciannelli as Guru
- Montagu Love as Colonel Weed
- Robert Coote as Higginbotham
- Abner Biberman as Chota
- Lumsden Hare as Major Mitchell
Crew
- George Stevens · Director
- Joel Sayre · Writer
- Fred Guiol · Writer
- Ben Hecht · Writer
- Charles MacArthur · Writer
- George Stevens · Producer
- Alfred Newman · Composer
- Joseph H. August · Cinematographer
- Henry Berman · Editor
- John Lockert · Editor