Gunga Din (1939)

Directors

George Stevens

Cast

Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine, Montagu Love, Robert Coote, Abner Biberman, Lumsden Hare, Richard Farnsworth, George Du Count, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

The story

On the Northwest Frontier of India, circa 1880, contact is lost with a British outpost at Tantrapur while it is in the midst of sending a telegraph message. Colonel Weed dispatches a detachment of twenty-five British Indian Army troops to investigate, led by three sergeants of the Royal Engineers: MacChesney, Cutter, and Ballantine, veteran campaigners. Accompanying the detail are six Indian camp workers, including regimental water carrier Gunga Din, who longs to throw off his lowly status and become a soldier of the Queen.

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