. . . to La-La Land by more than a decade to play the title role in GUNGA DIN, we learn here. Clocking in at a brief 11 minutes, ON LOCATION WITH GUNGA DIN does not have time to distinguish between its 2004 interviews and its use of archival footage. So, like the boy in THE SIXTH SENSE, we suspect that we are seeing dead people. If you pay that fact no never mind, you won't be surprised that no one points out ON LOCATION that Cary Grant's "Sgt. Cutter" character is called by his given name, "Archibald," exactly once in GUNGA DIN, with "Archibald Leach" being Grant's own birth name. Instead, we are told that GUNGA DIN's location shooting went over schedule by a multiple of three or four, and that the temperature in California's version of the Khyber Pass was 110 degrees during daylight and "very cold" at night. Poet Rudyard Kipling, DIN's creator, gets short shrift here, but receives far more attention during film historian Rudy Behlmer's commentary audio track for DIN's 2004 DVD release.
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