Film Forum

U.S., 1939
Directed by George Stevens
With Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen
Approx. 117 min. 35mm print courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

In 19th century British India, three sergeants, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Victor McLaglen, with the aid of faithful waterboy Sam Jaffe, take on Eduardo Cianelli’s nasty high priest of the goddess Kali. The Hect-MacArthur script proved only a blueprint, as improvisation raged on the desert locations of this “rip-roaring fun show all the way: all the action, spectacle, fights, chases, cavalry charges and last-minute resecues of a dozen westerns, serials and frontier epics.” – William K. Everson “One of the most enjoyable nonsense-adventure movies of all time.” – Pauline Kael

Reviews

“This is a pretty spiffing adventure yarn, with some classically staged fights, terrific performances.”
– Tom Milne, Time Out