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09/14/2008: "Cary Grant"

"Gunga Din" is the kind of action-adventure movie I think of when I hear "Douglas Fairbanks". I don't know if that's correct, since I don't know what Douglas Fairbanks movies I've seen, but there you go. In this one, our heroes are with the British army in India, mostly being rowdy and enjoying the company of their buddies, until they stumble across a murderous cult that needs to be put down. Gunga Din was an Indian waterboy who served the British and dreamed of being a soldier like them. This is one of those unusual movies in which Cary Grant (born in Bristol) was actually playing an Englishman.

1. "North By Northwest", 1959, also starring Eva Marie Saint and James Mason
   
2. "Bringing Up Baby", 1938, also starring Katharine Hepburn
   
3. "The Philadelphia Story", 1940, also starring Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart
   
4. "Notorious", 1946, also starring Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains
   
5. "People Will Talk", 1951, also starring Hume Cronyn
   
6. "Houseboat", 1958, also starring Sophia Loren
   
7. "Father Goose", 1964, also starring Leslie Caron
   
8. "Arsenic And Old Lace", 1944, also starring Raymond Massey
   
9. "Indiscreet", 1958, also starring Ingrid Bergman
   
10. "Operation Petticoat", 1959, also starring Tony Curtis
    
11. "Monkey Business", 1952, also starring Ginger Rogers
    
12. "I Was A Male War Bride", 1949, also starring Ann Sheridan
    
13. "Sylvia Scarlett", 1935, also starring Katharine Hepburn
    
14. "Gunga Din", 1939, also starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
    
15. "The Pride And The Passion", 1957, also starring Frank Sinatra and Sophia Loren