What year was the film Gunga Din first released?
Release dates for Gunga Din (1939) Country Date USA 24 January 1939 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere) USA 26 January 1939 (New York City, New York) (premiere) USA 17 February 1939 Denmark 21 March 1939 Finland 9 April 1939 France 31 May 1939 Italy 7 October 1939 Japan 2 December 1939 Hong Kong 24 April 1941 West Germany 14 August 1951 Austria 4 January 1952 Finland 18 September 1959 (re-release) Gunga Din is a 1939 RKO adventure film (very) loosely based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, combined with elements of his novel Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and their native water bearer who fight the Thuggee, a cult of murderous native Indians in colonial India. The movie stars Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, and, in the title role, Sam Jaffe. The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen, John Colton,
Gunga Din is a 1939 RKO adventure film (very) loosely based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, combined with elements of his novel Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and their native water bearer who fight the Thuggee, a cult of murderous native Indians in colonial India. The movie stars Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, and, in the title role, Sam Jaffe. The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen, John Colton, William Faulkner, Vincent Lawrence, Dudley Nichols and Anthony Veiller, and was directed by George Stevens. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
