Gunga Din
by Robert Clampett, George Stevens
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Actor: Billy Bletcher, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mel Blanc, Victor McLaglenDirector: George Stevens, Robert Clampett
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
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
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Movie Review: Gunga Din
Summary: 4 Stars
When people remember old-fashioned adventure films with nostalgia, this is probably what they're thinking of. It has three charismatic stars in the shape of Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and Victor McLaglen. It has humor, beautiful locations, terrific music, action from beginning to end, and some of that old-fashioned colonial racism.
The story is set during a Thuggee uprising in India in the late 19th century. Three British army sergeants get themselves into hot water on the frontier, with the help of their native water-carrier, Din, and come into conflict with the guru of a murderous cult. Southeastern California, setting of endless Westerns, stands in for India. Unusual for classic Hollywood, the romantic subplot doesn't get in the way of the fun.
For a more modern look at the same period of British colonialism, watch "The Man Who Would be King". Also based on the work of Rudyard Kipling (a story in this case, rather than a poem), it is just as adventurous but much less forgiving of the Europeans' presence in India.
Summary of Gunga Din
This 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 AxmakerAction & Adventure DVD Video
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