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Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., loosely based on the 1890 poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti, who fight the Thugs, a resurgent…
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Times change. Today’s Hollywood is insufferably “woke” and “politically correct”, but in the past it often went to the other extreme, creating films that could be viewed if not as overtly racist, then at least as patronising and insensitive towards various ethnic and religious minorities. That includes even some of the most popular and influential works of Classic Hollywood, like *Gunga Din*, the 1939 period adventu…More
