GUNGA DIN (1939)
GEORGE STEVENS
Plot
Three brave British soldiers brave the North West Frontier, that's that bit of Pakistan always in the news for its religious primitiveness, love of tradition, patriarchy and guns, and three-handedly put down a rebellion by those dastardly murderous Thugees. A great Hollywood action adventure film glorifying death, empire and the white man, and featuring elephants, Dougie Fairbanks, Bristol-born Cary Grant and Victor McLaglen all keeping the natives at bay. A sort of eastern Western, with lots of heroics and fighting, and based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling. May the sun never set!!!