Gunga Din
1939, Adventure, 1h 57m
26 Reviews 5,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Funny, suspenseful, and spectacularly entertaining, Gunga Din is an expertly calibrated adventure flick with some unfortunately outdated ideas about race. Read critic reviews
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Cast & Crew
Sgt. Archibald Cutter
Sgt. Thomas "Tommy" Ballantine
Sgt. "Mac" MacChesney
Emaline "Emmy" Stebbins
Gunga Din
Guru
Critic Reviews for Gunga Din
All Critics (26) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (2)
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Stevens's deliberate pacing serves the comedy remarkably well, although the action scenes are blunted by too-careful compositions and artsy cutting.
November 13, 2007 | Full Review… -
This is a pretty spiffing adventure yarn, with some classically staged fights, terrific performances.
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Cary Grant, it seems, is becoming one of the screen's subtlest comedians and, perhaps, a brilliant actor.
October 30, 2019 | Full Review… -
An entertaining, if antiquated feature made all the better by the three well-appointed leads.
June 9, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
One of the better adventure movies from the 1930s.
February 24, 2009 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review… -
Classic George Stevens adventure starring Cary Grant, and great cast.
March 8, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
Audience Reviews for Gunga Din
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Aug 31, 2011Cary Grant and company ruin a lot of brown peoples' days, 1800s-style. Loosely based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, follows three british military officers as they party and fight their way through Indian deserts. When they're not getting drunk and beating up each other, the three army pals are taking on the thugee cult, fist-pummeling dozens upon dozens of angry thugs. Gunga Din is a fun movie, and it was apparently a huge inspiration to Steven Spielberg, as it was a source of major inspiration for "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom".Devon B Super Reviewer
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Jan 30, 2011Poor Gunga Din. He was fighting on the wrong side.John B Super Reviewer
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Jan 18, 2011Doesn't hold up very well but set the blueprint for the buddy adventure movie that still gets made today. This thing is so testosterone-fueled that watching it with your girlfriend might turn her into a hermaphrodite. The only woman in all of India is Joan Fontaine whose only function is to annoy and emasculate her fiancee Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Meanwhile his "friends" try to trick him into re-enlisting in the regimental army for another 9 years - great guys, huh? But it's all lighthearted stuff, Cary Grant is awesome as usual as the scoundrelly Sergeant Cutter who wants to find a legendary golden temple that happens to be the HQ of a burgeoning Thuggee cult. You know the Thuggees, the Kali-worshipping maniacs from <i>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom</i>, Spielberg even ripped off the rope bridge scene from this movie! Good action scenes keep this afloat because some of the in-between moments, like the ballroom soiree, bring the movie to screeching halt.Doctor S Super Reviewer
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Sep 05, 2010This movie was better than I expected, and I loved Cary Grant in the movie, it was the ending that I liked best. The movie has some boring scenes, and the story is a bit silly. I wasn't sure what to rate this movie, you'll have to see it for yourself.Aj V Super Reviewer
Gunga Din Quotes
| Guru: | I want to find out about your Army. |
| Archibald Cutter: | Why don't you enlist, mate! |
| Archibald Cutter: | You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. |
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