Gunga Din

Gunga Din

117 mins | Comedy, Adventure, War | Jan. 26, 1939

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.

Gunga Din

117 mins | Comedy, Adventure, War | Jan. 26, 1939

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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers RKO Radio Pictures
Original title Gunga Din
Directors Dewey Starkey, Edward Killy, George Stevens
Writers Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht

Cast

Cary Grant

as Archibald Cutter

Victor McLaglen

as MacChesney

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

as Thomas Anthony Ballantine

Sam Jaffe

as Gunga Din

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

Leslie Sketchley

as Corporal (uncredited)

Olin Francis

as Fulad (uncredited)

Ann Evers

as Girl at Party (uncredited)

Audrey Manners

as Girl at Party (uncredited)

Fay McKenzie

as Girl at Party (uncredited)

Lal Chand Mehra

as Jadoo (uncredited)

Clive Morgan

as Lancer Captain (uncredited)

Roland Varno

as Lt. Markham (uncredited)

Frank Leyva

as Merchant (uncredited)

Cecil Kellaway

as Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)

George Du Count

as Pandu Lal (uncredited)

Reginald Sheffield

as Rudyard Kipling - Journalist

Bryant Fryer

as Scottish Sergeant (uncredited)

Charles Bennett

as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

Jamiel Hasson

as Thug Chieftain (uncredited)

George Regas

as Thug Chieftain (uncredited)

John Alban

as (uncredited)

Joe De La Cruz

as (uncredited)

Joe McGuinn

as (uncredited)

Richard Farnsworth

as (uncredited)

Sam Harris

as (uncredited)

Thom Metzetti

as (uncredited)

Art Mix

as (uncredited)

Satini Pualoa

as (uncredited)

Allen Schute

as (uncredited)

Paul Singh

as (uncredited)

Tom Tamarez

as (uncredited)

Carlie Taylor

as (uncredited)

Bruce Wyndham

as (uncredited)