British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
Cary Grant
as Archibald Cutter
Victor McLaglen
as MacChesney
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
as Thomas Anthony Ballantine
Sam Jaffe
as Gunga Din
Eduardo Ciannelli
as Guru
Joan Fontaine
as Emmaline "Emmy" Stebbins
Montagu Love
as Colonel Weed
Robert Coote
as Bertie Higginbotham
Abner Biberman
as Chota
Lumsden Hare
as Major Mitchell
Leslie Sketchley
as Corporal (uncredited)
Olin Francis
as Fulad (uncredited)
