This undertaking resembles a frivolous comic strip or a Saturday matinee serial, with carefree, blockheaded protagonists invincibly traipsing through war zones, utterly ignorant of the hazards of the military and political climate.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 6, 2025

George Stevens makes a superb job of handling the rumbustious squaddies in his biggest budget movie to date.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2024

Cary Grant, it seems, is becoming one of the screen's subtlest comedians and, perhaps, a brilliant actor.

| Oct 30, 2019

An entertaining, if antiquated feature made all the better by the three well-appointed leads.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2011

One of the better adventure movies from the 1930s.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 24, 2009

Classic George Stevens adventure starring Cary Grant, and great cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 8, 2008

Stevens's deliberate pacing serves the comedy remarkably well, although the action scenes are blunted by too-careful compositions and artsy cutting.

| Nov 13, 2007

This is a pretty spiffing adventure yarn, with some classically staged fights, terrific performances.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2006

As breezy as the pipe playing Seaforth Highlanders marching to battle without a care in the world.

| Original Score: A | Apr 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2005

A little jingoistic today, the film is nonetheless a critical standard-bearer of historical adventure flicks, and a quite funny one too.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2005

If PC backlash makes such classics like Gunga Din difficult to revisit, so be it. At this point, there's no getting around it.

| Mar 7, 2005

The best one could ever say for it is that its hinges were once merely creaky instead of frozen.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 10, 2005

This hugely exciting adventure film was one of director George Stevens' last pure entertainments before he went off to war and came back as a 'serious' filmmaker.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 7, 2005

Gunga Din has served as the inspiration for countless adventure yarns over the decades.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 17, 2004

Like the poem, the movie is sentimental and corny and totally absurd, and we wouldn't want it any other way. This is grand and exhilarating filmmaking that's hard to resist.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 12, 2004