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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.
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The poem inspired the 1939 adventure film Gunga Din from RKO Pictures, starring Sam Jaffe in the title role, along with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Fontaine. This movie was remade in 1961 as Sergeants 3 , starring the Rat Pack with Sammy Davis Jr. as the Gunga Din character, in which the locale was moved from ...
Joseph H. August, A.S.C. (26 April 1890 – 25 September 1947) was an American cinematographer and co-founder of the American Society of Cinematographers.. His films included Gunga Din (1939) for which he was nominated for Academy Award for Best Cinematography, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), and Portrait of Jennie (1948).
Even though 1939 was one of RKO's most creative years, with the release of 49 films, it ended the year showing a slight net loss. Highlights were Gunga Din , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , Love Affair , Allegheny Uprising , The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (RKO's last Astaire/Rogers film), Five Came Back , In Name Only , Bachelor Mother ...
The title Temple of Gold was taken from the film Gunga Din. [2] Another influence on the book was the novel Bonjour Tristesse. [3] Goldman had recently done military service and met a man who had an agent. He sent the novel to the agent, and through him got representation from Joe McCrindle. McCrindle sent it to Knopf, who accepted it for ...
Back in Hollywood, he did some films for RKO: Pacific Liner (1939) and Gunga Din (1939). [37] The latter, with Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , was an adventure epic loosely based on Rudyard Kipling 's poem that served as the template decades later for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
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