Gunga Din
by George Stevens, Robert Clampett
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Actor: Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, Mel Blanc, Victor McLaglenDirector: George Stevens, Robert Clampett
Writer: Anthony Veiller
Writer: Ben Hecht
Writer: Charles MacArthur
Writer: Dudley Nichols
Writer: Fred Guiol
Writer: Joel Sayre
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Gunga Din
Movie Review: A Story of 'The Great Game'
Summary: 5 Stars
Gunga Din is one of the rare cases where the film honors the work of a giant of literature. Kipling is criticized for what he wrote which can fail in missing the superb descriptions of soldiering and the associated cultures where it was conducted. This film incorporates the reality of quasi religious cults and their dangerous fanaticism matched with soldiers who served and fought with gallant professionalism in a story not ignoring color, wit and rough and tumble always a part of military life. The effective use of tactics shown in the film is truly art reflecting life. From jovial marching song, to deployment in line of battle to bringing a Gatling Gun into action station is timeless in its authenticity. And the finish - the loyal subordinate who gave his life for comrades and command. If only mankind had as apt a vehicle to equality.
Summary of Gunga Din
Hollywood showpiece based on kiplings famous poem about three soldiers in the 19th century who meet adventure on the northwest frontier. Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 03/29/2005 Starring: Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Run time: 117 minutes Rating: NrThis big, boisterous adventure is more inspired by than based on Rudyard Kipling's famous poem. Legendary screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur have fashioned a rousing Hollywood movie full of high adventure, knockabout comedy, and old-fashioned male bonding. And old-fashioned it is: the trio of British officers and best friends who form the core of the film are a 19th-century three musketeers in India, threatened by the interventions of a woman who means to marry the dashing Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). Blustery commander MacChesney (Victor McLaglen) schemes to keep Ballantine in the army while his second in command, the treasure-hunting Cutter (Cary Grant in a hopelessly mugging comic performance), continues searching for his elusive mother lode, but all their plans are thrown into chaos when the rise of the bloodthirsty Thugs threaten Britannia's soldiers. Sam Jaffe takes up the rear guard in turban, loin, and full-body make-up as the titular Gunga Din, the loyal water carrier who dreams of becoming a soldier. Bombastically chauvinist and naively imperialist, the film is bound to rub some people wrong, but Stevens creates a thrilling spectacle in the grand Hollywood mold, a handsome, exciting classic comic adventure that helped make 1939 Hollywood's grandest year. --Sean Axmaker
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