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Gunga Din

Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !

6.5(193)19391h 57m4

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

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Status
Released
Budget
$1.9M
Box office
$2.8M
Language
English
  • army
  • british empire
  • uprising
  • soldier
  • thuggee uprising
  • 19th century

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereLos Angeles, California24 Jan 1939
    • Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York26 Jan 1939
    • TheatricalNR17 Feb 1939
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalU28 Feb 1939
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatricale 101 Jan 1940
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1213 Aug 1951
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical926 Jan 1939

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Gunga Din was released on 26 January 1939.

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    tmcd77

    11/3/2024

    7/10

    Take Indiana Jones, mix in a little Zulu, and add a splash of The Man Who Would be King. Replace Michael Cain and Harrison Ford with Cary Grant, and what do you get? Answer - A film that stands the test of time. Grants comedic performance is totally on point, the punch bowl scene in particular having me in stitches. Based of various poems by Radyard Kiplin, this movie tells the story of three British army off…

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