DUCHESS THEATRE
A romance that blossoms in the shadow of ominous threats of religious uprisings in the land of golden dome .teapies threads a danger-filled course through the vivid story of “Gunga Din,” screening to-night at the Duchess Theatre. “Gunga Din,” picture version of Kipling’s ballad, stars Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, jun., and is one of the year's most colourful screen entertainments. The three stars are seen as reckless sergeants in a British army outpost near the famous Khyber Pass, a scene of unrest and hatred as a band of-religious fanatics, known as
Thugs, frenziediy pursue a reign of terror and murder according to their secret rites. Sam Jaffe, of “Lost Horizon” fame, plays the native watercarrier immortalised in the Kipling poem.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 96, 26 April 1940, Page 7
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125DUCHESS THEATRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 96, 26 April 1940, Page 7
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