“Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !”
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.
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Cast & Crew
Cary Grant
Archibald Cutter
Victor McLaglen
MacChesney
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Thomas Anthony Ballantine
Sam Jaffe
Gunga Din
Eduardo Ciannelli
Guru
Joan Fontaine
Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
Montagu Love
Colonel Weed
Robert Coote
Bertie Higginbotham
Abner Biberman
Chota
Lumsden Hare
Major Mitchell
Leslie Sketchley
Corporal (uncredited)
Olin Francis
Fulad (uncredited)
Ann Evers
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Audrey Manners
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Fay McKenzie
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Lal Chand Mehra
Jadoo (uncredited)
Clive Morgan
Lancer Captain (uncredited)
Roland Varno
Lt. Markham (uncredited)
Frank Leyva
Merchant (uncredited)
Cecil Kellaway
Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)
George Du Count
Pandu Lal (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield
Rudyard Kipling - Journalist
Bryant Fryer
Scottish Sergeant (uncredited)
Charles Bennett
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
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Reviews & Thoughts
Take Indiana Jones, mix in a little Zulu, and add a splash of The Man Who Would be King. Replace Michael Cain and Harrison Ford with Cary Grant, and what do you get? Answer - A film that stands the test of time. Grants comedic performance is totally on point, the punch bowl scene in particular having me in stitches. Based of various poems by Radyard Kiplin, this movie tells the story of three British army officers against a cult of indian strangler assassins. The eponymous Gunga Din being their water carrier (spoiler alert) who saves the day. Certainly Lucas and Spielberg deserve some plagerism claims. Temple of Doom being very near the knuckle on a few scenes!
