British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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Cary Grant | Sergeant Archibald Cutter |
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Victor McLaglen | Sergeant MacChesney |
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Sergeant Thomas Ballantine |
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Sam Jaffe | Gunga Din |
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Eduardo Ciannelli | Guru |
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Joan Fontaine | Emmy |
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Montagu Love | Colonel Weed |
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Robert Coote | Sergeant Higginbotham |
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Abner Biberman | Chota |
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Lumsden Hare | Major Mitchell |
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John Alban | |
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Charles Bennett | Telegraph Operator |
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Gene Coogan | Lancer |
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Joe De La Cruz | |
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James Dime | Thug |
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Ray Dixon | |
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George Du Count | Pandu Lal |
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Anna May the Elephant | Elephant |
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Ann Evers | Girl at Party |
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Richard Farnsworth | Bit Part |
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Olin Francis | Fulad |
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Bryant Fryer | Scottish Sergeant |
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Stuart Hall | Party Guest |
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Sam Harris | |
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Jamiel Hasson | Thug Chieftain |
Director | George Stevens |
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Writer | Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Rudyard Kipling, William Faulkner, Lester Cohen, John Colton, Vincent Lawrence, Dudley Nichols, Anthony Veiller | |
Producer | George Stevens | |
Musician | Alfred Newman | |
Photography | Joseph H. August |