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Gunga Din

Directed by George Stevens

Release Date - Jan 26, 1939 | Run Time - 117 min. | Countries - United States of America | MPAA Rating - TV-PG

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, who fight the Thuggee, an Indian murder cult, in colonial British India.

Movie Info

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Tags

Army, British Empire, Douglas Fairbanks, Soldier, Thuggee

Attributes

Based On: Gunga Din
Filming Location: Alabama Hills, Arizona, California
Narrative Location: India

Alternate Titles

Aufstand in Sidi Hakim

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