Gunga Din
Starring: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Director: George Stevens
Writer: Fred Guiol
Producer: George Stevens
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.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White.
- Based on Gunga Din (poem by Rudyard Kipling).
- The rights to Kipling's poem were bought by producer Edward Small's Reliance Pictures in 1936 for £4,700.
- RKO took the rights as part of a production deal with Small when he moved to the company.
- William Faulkner did some preliminary script work then the project was assigned to Howard Hawks.
Filming Locations
- California
- Arizona
- Alabama Hills
- A few interiors were made on sets at RKO Radio Pictures Hollywood sound stages, and one exterior scene filmed on the RKO Encino movie ranch.
Previous Showings
10 Runs • 5 Festivals
10,343 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (February 26, 1939)
Original Run: February 26, 1939 (Sunday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (10):
- February 26, 1939 (Sunday - Wednesday)Cary Grant, Victor MacLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- January 6 - 7, 1990 · 1,420 ticketsw/ Beau Geste (1939)
- July 31 - August 2, 1991 · 1,129 ticketsw/ King Kong
- August 29 - September 1, 1992 · 1,908 ticketsw/ Only Angels Have Wings
- August 16 - 19, 1997 · 1,380 ticketsw/ Beau Geste (1939)
- March 22 - 28, 2002 · 1,611 ticketscg2-2002w/ Holiday
- May 8 - 11, 2010 · 1,222 ticketsSpring 2010w/ Only Angels Have Wings
- April 24 - 26, 2015 · 861 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ The Devil and the Deep
- November 7 - 8, 2019 · 334 tickets80 Years Ago in This Theatre: The Films of 1939w/ Jesse James
- July 20 - 21, 2023 · 478 ticketsSummer 2023: The Best of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcockw/ Destination Tokyo