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17 February 1939 (USA)
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Tagline:
Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure ! more
Plot:
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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(3 articles)
Cary Is Not To Be Taken For Granted
(From New York Post. 3 August 2009, 12:23 AM, PDT)
Best Films Of Films' Best Year
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(From New York Post. 3 August 2009, 12:23 AM, PDT)
Best Films Of Films' Best Year
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or The Three Musketeers go to India...great fun...
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Cary Grant | ... | Cutter |
 | Victor McLaglen | ... | MacChesney |
 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | ... | Ballantine |
| Sam Jaffe | ... | Gunga Din |
| Eduardo Ciannelli | ... | Guru |
 | Joan Fontaine | ... | Emmy |
| Montagu Love | ... | Colonel Weed |
| Robert Coote | ... | Higginbotham |
| Abner Biberman | ... | Chota |
| Lumsden Hare | ... | Major Mitchell |
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117 min | 96 min (reissue)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Victor System)
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In some prints, the actor playing Rudyard Kipling, has been replaced on one side of the screen by a rather shaky matte when the last lines of poem "Gunga Din" are read.
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Revealing mistakes: In the end, when they're taking Gunga Din's body away, Colonel Weed does the salute the American way (palm down). The British salute with the palm up (Sam Jeffe demonstrates it perfectly a few seconds later).
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Quotes:
Sgt. Archibald Cutter:
Now get me some tools. Something to rip these blinking bars out.
Gunga Din: Already bring all tools could find. Is this satisfactory, sahib?
[holds up a fork]
Sgt. Archibald Cutter: Look... What do you think I want to break out of - a bloomin' pudding? Now go on, get something big.
[Din returns with an elephant]
Sgt. Archibald Cutter: What are you doing, Din?
Gunga Din: The large tool you asked for, sahib.
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Gunga Din: Already bring all tools could find. Is this satisfactory, sahib?
[holds up a fork]
Sgt. Archibald Cutter: Look... What do you think I want to break out of - a bloomin' pudding? Now go on, get something big.
[Din returns with an elephant]
Sgt. Archibald Cutter: What are you doing, Din?
Gunga Din: The large tool you asked for, sahib.
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Featured in "The Essentials: Gunga Din (#6.25)" (2006)
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Auld Lang Syne
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'Gunga Din' is the kind of film you cherish after the first viewing and then want to revisit from time to time. It stays in the memory and for valid reasons--the casting is perfect with the three buddies entering into the spirit of the whole thing--the perfect buddy movie. Cary Grant gave many fine performances on film but this is one of his greatest--heroic and funny at the same time. Sam Jaffe is excellent as the water carrier who eventually saves the regiment in what has to be one of the most thrilling endings ever conceived for an action movie. Today some of it is politcally incorrect but this is a minor flaw in a great movie. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Victor McLaglen and Eduardo Ciannelli are all perfectly cast. Joan Fontaine has a couple of brief scenes as the only femme in the story--but fails to ignite any interest in her bland role. Based on the famous Rudyard Kipling poem, it deserves a place at the top of the list of great adventure films produced in the 1930s. I'd love to see a technicolor version today with someone like Brendan Fraser leading the "musketeers". A real gem.