The read
A Balasaur Score of 75 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 89%. Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 74% of the 66 1930s adventure movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
189 audience votes
Key crew
- George StevensDirector
- Fred GuiolScreenplay
- Joel SayreScreenplay
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Cary GrantArchibald Cutter
- Victor McLaglenMacChesney
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.Thomas Anthony Ballantine
- Sam JaffeGunga Din
- Eduardo CiannelliGuru
- Joan FontaineEmmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
- Montagu LoveColonel Weed
- Robert CooteBertie Higginbotham
- Abner BibermanChota
- Lumsden HareMajor Mitchell
- Leslie SketchleyCorporal (uncredited)
- Olin FrancisFulad (uncredited)
