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Gunga Din

Gunga Din

Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !

1939•1h 57m•6.5/10
AdventureWarActionComedy

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6.5/10(176)

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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Production

RKO Radio Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

Archibald Cutter

Victor McLaglen

Victor McLaglen

MacChesney

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Thomas Anthony Ballantine

Sam Jaffe

Sam Jaffe

Gunga Din

Eduardo Ciannelli

Eduardo Ciannelli

Guru

Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine

Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins

Montagu Love

Montagu Love

Colonel Weed

Robert Coote

Robert Coote

Bertie Higginbotham

Abner Biberman

Abner Biberman

Chota

Lumsden Hare

Lumsden Hare

Major Mitchell

Leslie Sketchley

Corporal (uncredited)

Olin Francis

Olin Francis

Fulad (uncredited)

Ann Evers

Ann Evers

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Audrey Manners

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Fay McKenzie

Fay McKenzie

Girl at Party (uncredited)

Lal Chand Mehra

Lal Chand Mehra

Jadoo (uncredited)

Clive Morgan

Lancer Captain (uncredited)

Roland Varno

Roland Varno

Lt. Markham (uncredited)

Frank Leyva

Merchant (uncredited)

Cecil Kellaway

Cecil Kellaway

Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)

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