Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gunga Din (RKO Radio), most expensive picture in the history of RKO, which was last week on the point of emerging from a six-year bankruptcy, unfolds a jolly story about high jinks on India's frontier. Poor old Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) has small part in the proceedings. In the first part of the picture he wobbles about carrying a goatskin water bag. In the last part, he inspires a scared-looking Rudyard Kipling to produce a commemorative poem. The rest of the time Gunga Din's doings are eclipsed by those of three agile young sergeants...
...story of Gunga Din, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and made into a screen play by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant...
...things present, nor things to come . . . nor any other creature shall be able to separate it from the love of making that one sort of picture. The latest fad is drama filmed in the throbbing heart of India, replete with blood-thirsty native revolutionaries and Oxford accented imperialists. "Gunga Din," which begins its regular run at Keith's today, is the most recent piece de resistance...
...Gunga Din" is an excellent film. Thoroughly as exciting and far more skillfully made than any of its predecessors, it adds to the usual story of native uprisings constant suspense, some rollicking humor, and incidentally an interesting characterization of Kipling's immortal water boy. Battling a band of natives who worship the goddess of blood and show their devotion by strangling some thirty thousand persons a year, are Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. These men engage in the usual pitched battles, of course, but this time skill and originality of direction make them more than mere spectacles...
Last week Lou Ruppel got a new job far removed from the din of replating. On December 28 he becomes publicity director of Columbia Broadcasting System.* His successor at the Times: quiet, serious Newseditor Rowland Wood...