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Gunga Din, American action-adventure film, released in 1939, that was inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s famous 1892 poem of the same name. The story traces the adventures of a trio of maverick British sergeants—Cutter (played by Cary Grant), MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), and Ballantine (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.)—in 19th-century colonial India. The sergeants are sent on an important mission to investigate an outpost that has had its telegraph lines cut. Among their group is an Indian water carrier named Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe), who dreams of becoming a British soldier. At the outpost their company is attacked by native thugs, members of a ...(100 of 323 words)

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