Gunga Din
film by Stevens [1939]
Gunga Din, American action-adventure film, released in 1939, that was inspired by Rudyard Kiplingās famous 1892 poem of the same name. The story traces the adventures of a trio of maverick British sergeantsāCutter (played by Cary Grant), MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.)āin 19th-century colonial India. The sergeants are sent on an important mission to investigate an outpost that has had its telegraph lines cut. Among their group is an Indian water carrier...