Harold B. Lee Library

Gunga Din

Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine

• Time: 7:00 PM
• Date: Friday, October 26, 2007
• Place:HBLL Auditorium, 1st Floor; Admission is free; arrive early for seats.

About the Event

Producer-director George Stevens took inspiration from the epic Rudyard Kipling poem about a poor water boy in British colonial India who helps save the regiment he serves from a massacre. Grant, McLaglen and Fairbanks are devil-may-care soldiers who try to keep Fontaine from breaking up the fun-loving, danger-seeking trio by marrying Fairbanks. One historian observed that Gunga Din is “equal parts spectacle, suspense, adventure, humor and action” and “remains one of the prime examples of the cinema of exhilaration.” The print shown is the original, uncut version of this timeless classic. RKO Radio Pictures. 1939. 117 mins. Director: George Stevens.

Links and Materials

• Digital Copy of Original Poster

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