Gunga Din

1939 117 min Adventure, War, Action, Comedy

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.

budget $1,915,000 earnings $2,807,000 return 1.5x

director George Stevens

writers Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Fred Guiol, Joel Sayre

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