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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780648715
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0780648714
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 07, 2004
Running Time: 117 minutes
Sales Rank: 16529
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1939
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This big, boisterous adventure is more inspired by than based on Rudyard Kipling's famous poem. Legendary screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur have fashioned a rousing Hollywood movie full of high adventure, knockabout comedy, and old-fashioned male bonding. And old-fashioned it is: the trio of British officers and best friends who form the core of the film are a 19th-century three musketeers in India, threatened by the interventions of a woman who means to marry the dashing Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). Blustery commander MacChesney (Victor McLaglen) schemes to keep Ballantine in the army while his second in command, the treasure-hunting Cutter (Cary Grant in a hopelessly mugging comic performance), continues searching for his elusive mother lode, but all their plans are thrown into chaos when the rise of the bloodthirsty Thugs threaten Britannia's soldiers. Sam Jaffe takes up the rear guard in turban, loin, and full-body make-up as the titular Gunga Din, the loyal water carrier who dreams of becoming a soldier. Bombastically chauvinist and naively imperialist, the film is bound to rub some people wrong, but Stevens creates a thrilling spectacle in the grand Hollywood mold, a handsome, exciting classic comic adventure that helped make 1939 Hollywood's grandest year. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "When it comes to slaughter, you will do your work on water."
'Gunga Din' is an absolutely terrific 'oldie-goldie' inspired [very loosely] by Kipling's wonderful poem of he same name. Generally speaking, I can't stand to watch a film more than once but, 'Gunga Din' is an exception. I've watched it many times and still enjoy it. I'm reminded of a sailor I read about during WWII. He says that the ONLY film they had on their ship was 'Gunga Din.' I rather suspect that, despite its quality, the crewmen would have preferred a few other films, too.
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Rating: - A George Stevens Classic
A terrific action film based on a Kipling poem and starring Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Victor Mclauglen and Sam Jaffe as the title character. Battles at the Kyber, a deadly ancient sect of killers, romance, it has it all. Released in probably the greatest year in movie history, 1939. A year that also saw the release of GONE WITH THE WIND, THE WIZARD OF OZ, ROARING TWENTIES, DODGE CITY, JESSE JAMES, THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, DARK VICTORY, THE FOUR FEATHERS, STAGECOACH and too many ... Read More
Rating:  - Gunga Din
When people remember old-fashioned adventure films with nostalgia, this is probably what they're thinking of. It has three charismatic stars in the shape of Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and Victor McLaglen. It has humor, beautiful locations, terrific music, action from beginning to end, and some of that old-fashioned colonial racism.
The story is set during a Thuggee uprising in India in the late 19th century. Three British army sergeants get themselves into hot water on the frontier, ... Read More
Rating:  - Shows its age
This was probably a good movie when it was first released, but it definitely shows its age.
Rating: - Very entertaining!
Excellent movie. I've seen it many times and never get tired of it. One of Cary Grant's best movies.
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