Gunga Din
Thrills for a thousand movies plundered for one mighty show!...The picture that sweeps the screen like a cyclone!
SUPER SAVINGS: | $17.90 Limited Time Only |
List Price: |
|
You Save: | $2.08 (10% Off) |
Available:
Usually ships in 3-5 business days
Brand New
|
DVD Details
- Making-Of Documentary On Location with Gunga Din
- Commentary by Historian Rudy Behlmer
- Vintage Porky Pig Looney Tunes Cartoon "The Film Fan"
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2004
- Originally Released: 1939
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cary Grant | |
Performer: | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen, Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine, Montagu Love, Robert Coote, Cecil Kellaway, Abner Biberman, Lumsden Hare & Charles Bennett | |
Directed by | George Stevens | |
Edited by | Henry Berman & John Lockert | |
Screenwriting by | Fred Guiol | |
Composition by | Alfred Newman | |
Story by | Rudyard Kipling | |
Produced by | George Stevens | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph H. August |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
An entertaining, if antiquated feature made all the better by the three well-appointed leads.
Full Review
Cinema Sight
Rating: 4/5 --
A little jingoistic today, the film is nonetheless a critical standard-bearer of historical adventure flicks, and a quite funny one too.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 4/4 --
This hugely exciting adventure film was one of director George Stevens' last pure entertainments before he went off to war and came back as a 'serious' filmmaker.
Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
If PC backlash makes such classics like Gunga Din difficult to revisit, so be it. At this point, there's no getting around it.
Full Review
culturevulture.net
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Gunga Din has served as the inspiration for countless adventure yarns over the decades.
Full Review
Creative Loafing
Stevens's deliberate pacing serves the comedy remarkably well, although the action scenes are blunted by too-careful compositions and artsy cutting.
Full Review
Chicago Reader
Rating: 5/5 --
Classic George Stevens adventure starring Cary Grant, and great cast.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Description by OLDIES.com:
"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din." In that same vein, fans of classic action-adventures won't find any better film than this exhilarating tale, directed by George Stevens. Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. star as cheeky soldiers of Queen and Empire who never run short of battlefield gallantry and chin-up heroics as they combat a murderous sect in colonial India. Stevens skillfully orchestrates teeming battle sequences and boisterous humor. And Sam Jaffe memorably plays the title role of the lowly water-bearer who yearns to be a soldier...and seizes the chance to prove his mettle.
Product Description:
George Stevens' classic action-comedy stars Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Victor McLaglen as a trio of carousing British army officers in 1890s colonial India. When the telegraph wires to one of the British outposts are found to have been cut, the three friends, Sergeants Cutter (Grant), Ballantine (Fairbanks), and McChesney (McLaglen), are sent to investigate. They encounter the Thugges, a cult of religious extremists intent on driving the British from their land, but are able to repel their attack. After the soldiers return to their posts, Ballantine decides to leave the service and marry his girlfriend, Emmy Stebbins (Joan Fontaine). His friends are horrified by this news, and try to concoct a ruse to keep him in the army. While waiting, the mercenary Cutter, led by Gunga Din--their loyal, native water-bearer, goes into the hills in search of gold. They find that the temple of gold is, in fact, the headquarters of the Thugges, who capture Cutter, but allow Din to escape. Stevens makes good use of his slapstick training here, putting a comic twist on the potential cliches of nearly every scene. In doing so, he creates of one of the most sheerly entertaining films every made. The three principals are perfectly cast, and the film boosted Grant to a new level of stardom. However, the unfortunate, "white man's burden" treatment accorded to Gunga Din must be seen in the context of the film's more benighted time.
Description by Warner Home Video:
The British send three of their best men to investigate when a patrol is massacred by Hindu fanatics intent on reviving the ancient murder-religion of the Thuggee. Sergeants MacChesney, Cutter, and Ballantine and their water-carrier, young Gunga Din barely escape their first encounter with the bloodthirsty enemy. After they are captured they employ a clever ruse to escape, and take the Thuggee leader as their prisoner. With British reinforcements approaching, they discover their comrades are walking into a trap. In an incredible act of bravery, Gunga Din, wounded from battle, crawls to a temple dome and blows his bugle to warn the soldiers.
Keywords:
Movie Lovers' Ratings & Reviews:
Customer Rating:
Based on 18962 ratings.
Based on 18962 ratings.
Write an online review to share your thoughts with other customers.
Great Family Fare, but not Childish
Movie Lover: Hanley Harding from
Sunny Isles Beach, FL US -- November, 28, 2005
Gunga Din is one of Rudyard Kiplings most celebrated poems. This movie classic does it justice. Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. are the happy-go-lucky Britsh "three musketeers", serving in India. And the venerable Sam Jaffe (remember Dr. Zorba, on the TV series Ben Casey?) is magnificently endearing as the not-to-bright, crippled, eager soldier wanna-be, waterboy Gunga Din. With Eduardo Cianelli as a deliciously evil fanatic leader, the movie only gets better and better until its magnificent battle climax and heart-rending tribute to the heroic Din; and to Kipling's work, as he travelled across India with Her Majesty's soldiers, writing about all he saw. This is a classic must-see for the whole family.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 18,767
- UPC: 053939683622
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item