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understanding that the enlistment paper will be torn up after the rescue. Emmy tries to dissuade him from going, but he refuses to desert his friends. MacChesney's eagerness leads him to head to the temple without questioning Din in detail. As a result, MacChesney, Ballantine, and Din foolishly enter the temple by themselves and are easily captured. They are thrown into a cell with Cutter, where they discover he has been tortured since his capture; the guru demands that they reveal the details of their regiment's location. MacChesney tricks the Thuggee guru into thinking he is prepared to betray his friends and the British army, and the soldiers use the opportunity to take the guru hostage. A standoff ensues, and the soldiers take the guru to the roof of the temple, where they discover the true size of the Thuggee forces.
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enlistment ends while the detachment is still at Tantrapur, and a relief column led by Higginbotham, with Emmy riding along to surprise Ballantine, arrives. Meanwhile, Gunga Din tells Cutter of a temple he has found, one made of gold. Cutter is determined to make his fortune, but MacChesney will have none of it and has Cutter put in the stockade to prevent his desertion. That night, Cutter escapes with Din's help and goes to the temple, which they discover belongs to the Thugs when the cultists return for a ceremony. Cutter creates a distraction and allows himself to be captured so that Din can slip away and sound the warning.
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people but have a magnificent age-old culture, and that this Gunga Din could also be seen in a different light, e.g. as a traitor to his people, I was amused and touched because this utterly distorted account was an artistic success and considerable resources in talent and ingenuity had been applied in making it. Obviously artistic appreciation of this sort is not without effects. It weakens the good instincts and strengthens the bad, it contradicts true experience and spreads misconceptions, in short it perverts our picture of the world."
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a murder cult that had been suppressed 50 years previously. Weed intends to send MacChesney and Cutter back with a larger force, in order to retake the town and complete the telegraph repairs. Ballantine, however, is due to muster out of the army in a few days; Weed orders Sgt. Higginbotham, disliked by both MacChesney and Cutter, to join the expedition as Ballantine's replacement.
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has contradicted the story told about the coin-flip by his colleague Osbourne, and has stated that while Grant was originally slated to play Sergeant Ballantine, and did indeed decide to switch to the more comedic role of Sergeant Cutter, he claimed that after taking over the role that may or may not
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Kipling has just completed, so that he might read the final words himself over Din's body. Ballantine announces his intention to remain in the army, and instead of tearing up his re-enlistment papers, gives them to the colonel, much to the approval of MacChesney and Cutter. The film ends with a final
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At Tantrapur, Ballantine is eager to complete as much of the repairs as possible before his enlistment ends, while Cutter and MacChesney are frustrated and bored by the lack of action. Both suspect that if he could see some combat, Ballantine would change his mind about leaving the army. Ballantine's
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Cutter. Gunga Din is also bayoneted, but manages with the last of his strength to climb to the top of the gold dome of the temple and sound the alarm with a bugle taken from a dead Thug. He is then shot dead, but the British force is alerted and defeats the Thuggee forces. At Din's funeral pyre, the
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They find Tantrapur apparently deserted and set about repairing the telegraph. However, they are soon surrounded by hostile locals. The troops fight their way out, taking heavy losses. Colonel Weed and Major Mitchell identify an enemy weapon brought back by the survivors as belonging to the Thuggee,
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discusses the film in his short essay "Is it worth speaking about the amateur theater?" Here Brecht reflects that "I felt like applauding, and laughed in all the right places, despite the fact that I knew all the time that there was something wrong, that the Indians are not primitive and uncultured
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The film earned $ 1,507,000 in the United States and Canada and $ 1,300,000 elsewhere, but because of its high production cost, it recorded a loss of $ 193,000. The film was the sixth highest-grossing film nationally in 1939; however, in the ten states of Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho,
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Once he is discharged, Ballantine plans to wed Emmy Stebbins and go into the tea business, a combined calamity that MacChesney and Cutter consider worse than death. MacChesney and Cutter are invited to the engagement party; intending to cause mischief, they spike the punch, which is subsequently
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As the regiment marches toward the temple, the guru boasts that they are falling into the trap he has set. He orders his men, still clustered around the temple, to take their positions, but they refuse to abandon him. When he sees that they are unwilling to leave him in enemy hands, he commits
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When Din gives MacChesney the news, he decides to go to the rescue, while Higginbotham sends word to headquarters to call out the entire regiment. Ballantine wants to go, too, but MacChesney points out that he cannot, as he is now a civilian. Ballantine reluctantly agrees to re-enlist, on the
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. reported in a featurette interview on the DVD release that in his travels, he has met several Hindi Indians who were convinced the external scenes were filmed on location in Northwest India at the actual Khyber Pass. A few interiors were made on sets at
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until Grant requested the part because it would enable him to inject more humor into his performance, at which point Fairbanks Jr. was brought on board to replace Grant as Ballantine.
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drunk by Higginbotham. Higginbotham is so sick the following morning that he is unable to march out with the expedition, so a reluctant Ballantine is ordered to replace him.
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have already been filled, Grant actually recommended that his former role go to his friend Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and was primarily responsible for him gaining the part.
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suicide to remove that obstacle; the Thuggee force moves into position, while other cultists swarm up the temple in order to kill the sergeants. Thugs shoot and
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Utah, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina, it was the third highest-grossing film, coming only behind
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Originally, Grant and Fairbanks were assigned each other's role; Grant was to be the one leaving the army to marry
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a positive review. However, they also noted that the film was part of a recent Hollywood trend of manufactured
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essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. called the film "my sole masterpiece among the hundred or so films I made."
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image of Gunga Din's spirit, standing proudly and saluting at attention, now in British uniform.
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Filming began on June 24, 1938, and was completed on October 19, 1938. The film premiered in
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colonel formally inducts Gunga Din as a British corporal—then he asks visiting journalist
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was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States
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Gunga Din temple location in Alabama Hills (photo taken by Edward D. Sly in 1937 or '38)
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Rinzler, J.W.; Bouzereau, Laurent (2008). "Temple of Death: (June 1981 – April 1983)".
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as one of the six movies for the cast and crew to watch before starting production.
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Fairbanks Jr. claims he was cast as Cutter by Howard Hawks then asked to change.
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In 1999, the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States
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Gunga Din: From Kipling's Poem to Hollywood's Action-Adventure Classic
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Several later films have paid homage to scenes from Gunga Din. In
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The movie includes a sequence at the end in which a fictionalized
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did some preliminary script work then the project was assigned to
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combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection
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On the other hand, according to a biography of director
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troops to investigate, led by three sergeants of the
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message. Colonel Weed dispatches a detachment of 25
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Index


George Stevens
Joel Sayre
Fred Guiol
Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur
Gunga Din
Barrack Room Ballads
Rudyard Kipling
Cary Grant
Victor McLaglen
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Sam Jaffe
Eduardo Ciannelli
Joan Fontaine
Joseph H. August
Alfred Newman
RKO Radio Pictures
English
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adventure film
RKO Radio Pictures
George Stevens
Cary Grant
Victor McLaglen
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
poem of the same name
Rudyard Kipling
Soldiers Three

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