Movie

Gunga Din

Released: January 26, 1939 (1939)

Runtime: 117 minutes

Genres: 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.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Lumsden Hare as Major Mitchell
Age at release: 63
Montagu Love as Colonel Weed
Age at release: 58
Victor McLaglen as MacChesney
Age at release: 52
Eduardo Ciannelli as Guru
Age at release: 49
Sam Jaffe as Gunga Din
Age at release: 47
Cary Grant as Archibald Cutter
Age at release: 35
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Thomas Anthony Ballantine
Age at release: 29
Robert Coote as Bertie Higginbotham
Age at release: 29
Abner Biberman as Chota
Age at release: 29
Joan Fontaine as Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
Age at release: 21

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Cecil Kellaway as Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)
Age at release: 48
George Regas as Thug Chieftain (uncredited)
Age at release: 48
Olin Francis as Fulad (uncredited)
Age at release: 47
Charles Bennett as Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Age at release: 47
Joe De La Cruz as (uncredited)
Age at release: 46
Lal Chand Mehra as Jadoo (uncredited)
Age at release: 41
Clive Morgan as Lancer Captain (uncredited)
Age at release: 41
Frank Leyva as Merchant (uncredited)
Age at release: 41
Reginald Sheffield as Rudyard Kipling - Journalist
Age at release: 37
Jamiel Hasson as Thug Chieftain (uncredited)
Age at release: 37
Leslie Sketchley as Corporal (uncredited)
Age at release: 36
John Alban as (uncredited)
Age at release: 36
Joe McGuinn as (uncredited)
Age at release: 35
Roland Varno as Lt. Markham (uncredited)
Age at release: 30
Ann Evers as Girl at Party (uncredited)
Age at release: 23
Fay McKenzie as Girl at Party (uncredited)
Age at release: 20
Richard Farnsworth as (uncredited)
Age at release: 18
Audrey Manners as Girl at Party (uncredited)
Age at release: Unknown
George Du Count as Pandu Lal (uncredited)
Age at release: Unknown
Bryant Fryer as Scottish Sergeant (uncredited)
Age at release: Unknown