
The Four Feathers(1939)
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.


“Barbaric Splendor - Gasping Magnitude - Adventure !”
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.

Cary Grant
Archibald Cutter

Victor McLaglen
MacChesney

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Thomas Anthony Ballantine

Sam Jaffe
Gunga Din

Eduardo Ciannelli
Guru

Joan Fontaine
Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins

Montagu Love
Colonel Weed

Robert Coote
Bertie Higginbotham

Abner Biberman
Chota

Lumsden Hare
Major Mitchell
Gunga Din is a adventure, war, action, comedy film released in 1939 exploring themes of army, british empire, uprising, soldier, thuggee uprising, 19th century. Directed by George Stevens, it stars Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. 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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