Good story, Not enough for a whole film

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Here is another great one from the year 1939. I saw it growing up and loved it, and have seen it since several times and still am fascinated. Grant, Fairbanks Jr., and McLaglin, as sergeants Cutter, Balantine, and McChesney, provide all the necessary action and comedy needed to engross any viewer.To me, three outstanding comedic bits were trying to feed the reluctant elephant in the stall, the drunk scene between Grant and McLaglin when Grant is decked, and at the punch bowl where Robert Coote imbibes the potent stuff and drops like a rock. The efforts to prevent Fairbanks Jr. from resigning are also hilarious.I also remember the hideous pit of snakes that Sgt.McChesney (McLaglin) is almost cast into. Instead, the evil Eduardo Cianelli jumps in.Sam Jaffe (Gunga Din) steals the show at the end by his bugle call alerting the unsuspecting British column to the ambush. He gives a touching performance throughout.A battle at the beginning and a major one at the end, provide plenty of action. Even more excitement occurs when the three sergeants are captured by the Thugees.A classic that all adventure lovers should see.

Truly a shame! This film not to be in the top 250 is criminal.Film history will record this as a glorious combination of epic proportion and love story. Even the love story includes traditional and siblings in arms.If I were to create a syllabus for film history class this picture would be included for certain.Though nearly eighty years old this premise is in a 2015 relevant form. Religious zealots killing for killing sake. Historical yet timely.Kipling was the most powerful poet I have ever read.As good as it gets. Enjoy

I know this is supposed to be a "Great Movie". And it's not awful. But the only reason I can see that people think it's "great" is because it's old and it has some "stars" in it. Most of the acting is abysmal caricature. The brits practically strut around saying "Pip pip pip, cheerio, spot of tea, say what?" throughout. Watching the three main characters, the Sergeants, all I could think of was that whoever wrote this must also be moonlighting writing Three Stooges scripts. It *is* an interesting movie in a historical context, both as an expression of movie making of that day and of the underlying story of the Thuggs. But being interesting isn't the same as being "good". Plan Nine from Outer Space is also interesting.... So if you haven't seen it, it's worth watching, but it's no great movie. I would never watch it a second time in a decade.

There is a lot to forgive in this hugely popular Movie, especially among those who saw it as young Boys. But it hardly stand up as a newly viewed Film today. It is another of those that has to be seen with blind reverence. British Colonialism was nothing more than an attempt at World domination while oppressing People and destroying cultures. So it is quite a stretch to view this all with a light Heart.But all that aside, as a Movie this has moments of grandeur but at times is quite a clumsy affair. With its unnecessary sped-up Action Scenes it detracts from some of the wide open wonder and immense battle set-ups.The ending does have quite an amount of Pathos. The final battle at the Temple is a reversal unlike the previous slapstick battles and is quite Dramatic. Overall this is overrated, and dated, but just entertaining enough as a throwback to an era of some pretty shallow renditions of some pretty deep subjects.