Gunga Din (1939)
Gunga Din (1939)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Cary Grant
Sergeant Archibald Cutter
Joan Fontaine
Emmy
Victor McLaglen
Sergeant MacChesney
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Sergeant Thomas Ballantine
Sam Jaffe
Gunga Din
Eduardo Ciannelli
Guru
Montagu Love
Colonel Weed
Robert Coote
Sergeant Higginbotham
Abner Biberman
Chota
Lumsden Hare
Major Mitchell
Leslie Sketchley
Corporal (uncredited)
Rudyard Kipling
Writer
Olin Francis
Fulad (uncredited)
George Stevens
Director
Ann Evers
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Joel Sayre
Writer
Fred Guiol
Writer
Audrey Manners
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Fay McKenzie
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Ben Hecht
Writer
Lal Chand Mehra
Jadoo (uncredited)
Charles MacArthur
Writer
Clive Morgan
Lancer Captain (uncredited) / Technical Advisor
Alfred Newman
Composer
Roland Varno
Lt. Markham (uncredited)
Joseph H. August
Cinematographer
Frank Leyva
Merchant (uncredited)
Henry Berman
Editor
Cecil Kellaway
Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)
George Du Count
Pandu Lal (uncredited)
John Lockert
Editor
Reginald Sheffield
Rudyard Kipling - Journalist
Bryant Fryer
Scottish Sergeant (uncredited)
Charles Bennett
Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Jamiel Hasson
Thug Chieftain (uncredited)
George Regas
Thug Chieftain (uncredited)
John Alban
(uncredited)
Joe De La Cruz
(uncredited)
Joe McGuinn
(uncredited)
Richard Farnsworth
(uncredited)
Sam Harris
(uncredited)
Thom Metzetti
(uncredited)
Art Mix
(uncredited)
Satini Pualoa
(uncredited)
Allen Schute
(uncredited)
Paul Singh
(uncredited)
Tom Tamarez
(uncredited)
Carlie Taylor
(uncredited)
Bruce Wyndham
(uncredited)
Van Nest Polglase
Art Direction
Edward Stevenson
Costume Designer
Vernon L. Walker
Special Effects
Mel Berns
Makeup Department Head
Darrell Silvera
Set Decoration
Perry Ferguson
Assistant Art Director
James G. Stewart
Sound Recordist
Pandro S. Berman
Production Manager
Edward Killy
Assistant Director
John E. Tribby
Sound Recordist
Dewey Starkey
Assistant Director
Robert Erskine
Technical Advisor
Charles Burke
Camera Operator
Eddie Pyle
Camera Operator
Tom Clement
Grip
Walter Hermann
Makeup Artist
Pat Williams
Wardrobe Designer
Cecil Shephard
Sound
Kenneth C. Wesson
Sound
Fred Starns
Wardrobe Master
William Briers
Technical Advisor
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 26, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 57m
Budget$1,915,000
Box Office$2,807,000
Filming LocationsCalifornia · Alabama Hills, United States of America · Arizona, United States
Genres
Wiki.
Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., loosely based on the 1890 poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thuggee, an Indian murder cult, in colonial British India.
The supporting cast features Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, and in the title role, Sam Jaffe. The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen, John Colton, William Faulkner, Vincent Lawrence, Dudley Nichols, and Anthony Veiller.
In 1999, Gunga Din was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.