{"id":38010,"date":"2024-12-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38010"},"modified":"2024-12-16T20:42:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T01:42:46","slug":"gunga-din-1939-directed-by-george-stevens-starring-cary-grant-joan-fontaine-victor-mclaglen-douglas-fairbanks-jr-and-sam-jaffe-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38010","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gunga Din&#8221; (1939) directed by George Stevens, starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Sam Jaffe \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z121724zview_gungadin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"710\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Gunga Din <\/i>(1939)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>George Stevens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol; <\/strong>story by<strong> Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur; <\/strong>based on <em>Gunga Din<\/em> from BARRACK ROOM BALLADS by<strong> Rudyard Kipling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Montagu Love, Robert Coote, Abner Biberman <\/strong>and <strong>Lumsden Hare<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 A<em>rmies and elephants!&#8230;Love and laughter!&#8230;Breathless adventure inspired by Kipling&#8217;s heroic odyssey of fighting in India!&#8230;Astride its eye-staggering scenes, three lusty sons of the sword&#8230;reckless in love, ruthless in war and dauntless in peril!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 1880s, India&#8217;s Northwest frontier was dangerous in the best of times.\u00a0 When all contact is lost with the Tantrapur British outpost, a squad of\u00a0 25 soldiers is sent to investigate.\u00a0 The colonel includes his three best men: Sergeant Archibald Cutter (Grant), Sergeant MacChesney (McLaglen) and Sergeant Ballantine (Fairbanks).\u00a0 The three are cutups, and discipline problems, but veterans that can be counted on when things go sideways.\u00a0 Also accompanying the squad is Gunga Din (Jaffe).\u00a0 Din is of low status regulated to carrying water or other such menial tasks.\u00a0 Din dreams of someday being a soldier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The squad finds the outpost deserted.\u00a0 Before they can fix the telegraph, they are attacked.\u00a0 Although most of the team is wiped out, the three Sergeants, Gunga Din and a few others escape.\u00a0 They are shocked to learn that a murderous cult known as the Thuggee have returned.\u00a0 Thought to have been wiped out decades ago, the Thuggee have secretly been organizing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Thuggee plan to kill all nonbelievers.\u00a0 They are on the move.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only <em>Gone with the Wind<\/em> earned more at the box office in 1939 than <em>Gunga Din.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The giant gong used in the opening sequence was the same gong used in <em>King Kong<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Gunga Din<\/em> was the most expensive film RKO had produced up to that point.\u00a0 Even still it went over budget by a half a million dollars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Thuggees were an actual religious cult.\u00a0 They would gain the confidence of travelers.\u00a0 Later they would strangle the poor soul and steal their good. Thuggees were the inspiration for the word &#8220;thug&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Gunga Din <\/i>(1939) <\/em><\/strong>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z121724zview_gungadin2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunga Din (1939) Director: \u00a0George Stevens Screenplay: \u00a0Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol; story by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur; based on Gunga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38011,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38010\/revisions\/38011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}