Gunga Din (film)
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| Directed by | George Stevens |
| Produced by | George Stevens |
| Written by |
Joel Sayre Fred Guiol |
| Story by |
Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur |
| Based on |
the poem 1892 poem Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling |
| Starring |
Cary Grant Victor McLaglen Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Sam Jaffe Eduardo Ciannelli Joan Fontaine |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
| Cinematography | Joseph H. August |
| Edited by | Henry Berman |
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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117 min. |
| Language |
English Hindi |
| Budget | $1,915,000 |
| Box office | $2,807,000 |
Gunga Din is a 1939 RKO adventure film directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., loosely based on the poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his short story collection Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thuggee, a cult of murderous Indians in colonial British India.
The supporting cast features Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, and in the title role, Sam Jaffe. The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen, John Colton, William Faulkner, Vincent Lawrence, Dudley Nichols, and Anthony Veiller.
In 1999, Gunga Din was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
On the Northwest Frontier of India, circa 1880, contact has been lost with a British outpost at Tantrapur in the midst of a telegraph message. Colonel Weed (Montagu Love) dispatches a detachment of 25 British Indian Army troops to investigate, led by three sergeants of the Royal Engineers, MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), Cutter (Cary Grant), and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), long-time friends and veteran campaigners. Although they are a disciplinary headache for their colonel, they are the right men to send on a dangerous mission. Accompanying the detail are six Indian camp workers, including regimental bhisti (water carrier) Gunga Din (Jaffe), who longs to throw off his lowly status and become a soldier of the Queen.
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