Gunga Din
Summary:
Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a crude cockney soldier's tribute to a native Indian water boy who remains at his job even after being mortally wounded. Hardly the sort of material upon which to build 118 minutes' worth of screen time-at least, it wasn't until RKO producer Pandro S. Berman de... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Cary Grant - (Archibald Cutter)
Victor McLaglen - (Sgt. MacChesney)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - (Sgt. Ballantine)
Sam Jaffe - (Gunga Din)
Eduardo Ciannelli - (Guru)
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Review:
George Stevens' Gunga Din was not only the best of Hollywood's forays into colonialist adventure yarns, it served as the blueprint for many action-adventure movies for years after its release. It is a tribute to Stevens' direction and the uniformly superb cast that the film was a rousing success upon its release, and has endured as a popul... Continue >>
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