The GONE WITH THE WIND of the comic action-adventure genre, GUNGA DIN has a bit of everything--humor, suspense, spectacle, action
and a heavy dose of racism, imperialism and xenophobia.
Based on a story by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (it's the same friendly rivals plot of THE FRONT PAGE) and the moving Rudyard Kipling poem, this rousing adventure opens as a remote, mountainous British outpost in India is raided by a band of rebel natives. Three of the Army's most reliable
frontier veterans--Sergeants Cutter (Cary Grant), MacChesney (Victor McLaglen) and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)--are sent to the now-silent outpost. Accompanying them is a smal...
Released:
1939
Rated:
NR
Length:
117 mins