---
title: 'Gunga Din (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'George Stevens'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 108
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/gunga-din-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031398/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Gunga Din (1939)

1939 · 108 min · Adventure, War · United States


## Synopsis

Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., loosely based on the 1890 poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti, who fight the Thugs, a resurgent Indian murder cult, in colonial British India.

## Credits

- **Director:** [George Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-stevens)
- **Producer:** [George Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-stevens)
- **Screenplay:** [Fred Guiol](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-guiol)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Alfred Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-newman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph H. August](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-h-august)
- **Editor:** [Henry Berman](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-berman)

## Cast

- [Abner Biberman](https://cinepixo.com/people/abner-biberman)
- [Joan Fontaine](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-fontaine)
- [Lumsden Hare](https://cinepixo.com/people/lumsden-hare)
- [Robert Coote](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-coote)
- [Charles Bennett](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-bennett-2)
- [Montagu Love](https://cinepixo.com/people/montagu-love)
- [Eduardo Ciannelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduardo-ciannelli)
- [Sam Jaffe](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-jaffe)
- [Douglas Fairbanks Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-fairbanks-jr)
- [Victor McLaglen](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-mclaglen)
- [Reginald Sheffield](https://cinepixo.com/people/reginald-sheffield)
- [Cary Grant](https://cinepixo.com/people/cary-grant)
- [Roland Varno](https://cinepixo.com/people/roland-varno)
- [Cecil Kellaway](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-kellaway)
- [Georgios Regas](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgios-regas)

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