Word: gunga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gunga Din (Gary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; TIME...
...Gunga Din (Gary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; TIME...
...Boston currently running, only one is at a theatre incurably addicted to the practice. "Grand Illusion" at the Fine Arts is finishing its fifth, and 'its said final week; Jesse James, the rootin' tootin' gunman in technicolor, is shooting his way through a second week at the Met; and "Gunga Din," replete with a tribe of murderous Indian natives, is still at Keith's. All three, and especially "grand Illusion," are worth seeing; likewise the new Joan (Hedy Lamarr) Bennett, coming to Loew's in "Trade Winds"--of which this column will have more to say tomorrow. Finally, the latest...
...individual product of the cinema industry, there is practically nothing to be said against Gunga Din. First-class entertainment, it will neither corrupt the morals of minors nor affront the intelligence of their seniors. But unfortunately, Gunga Din is not an isolated example of the cinema industry's majestic mass product. It is a symbol of Hollywood's current trend. As such it is as deplorable as it is enlightening...
...producer in England persuaded Bernard Shaw to sell picture rights to his plays. French producers have lately turned out genuinely original products like Le Roman d'un Tricheur and Grand Illusion. Hollywood, however, even when it was not deliberately repeating itself, repeated itself unconsciously. Gunga Din is an example of this unconscious repetition. Whatever there is to be said about the minor matter of barrack-room life in India has been more than sufficiently said by the cinema many times, most recently in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Charge of the Light Brigade and Drums...