Category: Adventure
All Genres: Adventure, War, Action, Comedy
Release Year: 1939
Country: USA
Runtime: 117
Rating: 4.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: George Stevens
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !

INSPIRED BY RUDYARD KIPLINGS HEROIC LINES (original one-sheet poster)

Out of the stirring glory of Kiplings seething world of battle they roar--red-blood and gunowder heroes all!...

Swaggering sons of battle!

Writing by: Rudyard Kipling - (poem "Gunga Din")
Ben Hecht - (story) &
Charles MacArthur - (story)
Joel Sayre - (screenplay) &
Fred Guiol - (screenplay)
Lester Cohen - (contributing writer) uncredited and
John Colton - (contributing writer) uncredited and
William Faulkner - (contributing writer) uncredited and
Vincent Lawrence - (contributing writer) uncredited and
Dudley Nichols - (contributing writer) uncredited and
Anthony Veiller - (contributing writer) uncredited

Produced by: George Stevens - producer

Cast: Cary Grant - Sgt. Archibald Cutter
Victor McLaglen - Sgt. Mac MacChesney
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Sgt. Thomas Tommy Ballantine
Sam Jaffe - Gunga Din
Eduardo Ciannelli - Guru
Joan Fontaine - Emaline Emmy Stebbins
Montagu Love - Col. Weed
Robert Coote - Sgt. Bertie Higginbotham
Abner Biberman - Chota
Lumsden Hare - Maj. Mitchell
John Alban - (uncredited)

Music: Alfred Newman
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Plot Outline: 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.
Plot: Based loosely on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this takes place in British India during the Thuggee uprising. Three fun loving sergeants are doing fine until one of them wants to get married and leave the service. The other two trick him into a final mission where they end up confronting the entire cult by themselves as the British Army is entering a trap. This is of the "War is fun" school of movie making. It has the flavour of watching Notre Dame play an inferior high school team.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The credits appear on a gong. Standing next to the gong is a Hindu man, and every time he strikes the gong, the credits change.

Goofs: We know about 11 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: The level of the gin bottle that Cutter carries from the veranda.

Trivia: There are 12 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• The "bridge over the deep chasm" scene, in which Annie the elephant shakes a rope bridge while trying to cross, was actually filmed on a bridge eight feet off the ground. The background was a realistic painting of a chasm.
• The battle between the Thuggees and the British Indian army was added when RKO considered the ending too bland.
• Eight make-up artists were sent to the Lone Pine set, where they worked for the six weeks of location shooting. Over 600 extras were employed in the Mount Whitney scenes.

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