ALFREDTON TALKIES
“GUNGA DIN” ON THURSDAY. Romance and adventure, comedy and thrills emerge in a whirlwind of impetuous, headlong action throughout the colourful scenes of “Gunga Din,” the sensational screen drama of British army life in India, which will be screened at Alfredton tomorrow. The RKO Radio feature is adapted from Rudyard Kipling's famous poem of the same title, its central figure being a regimental water-carrier who develops from a humble servant into a heroic fighting man, and makes the supreme sacrifice for the sake of his comrades. Dominating the adventures of Gunga Din are three sergeants, a strong-arm scrapping trio who meet an attack by tribesmen of the murderous cult of Thuggee as a British military patrol advances from a British outpost. Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Junr., fill the roles of Sergeants Cutter. MacChesney and Ballantine, with Sam Jaffe cast as Gunga Din and Joan Fontaine as the girl in the drama. Viewed from any angle, “Gunga Din" stands out in bold relief as a melodrama warranted to warm the biood and stir the pulses of all true lovers of adventurous romance.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 7
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186ALFREDTON TALKIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 7
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