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Gunga Din's Eulogy (Some Spoilers)

posted 18 years ago by mbphilly
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Anyone else cry a bit as the Colonel (played very well by Montague Love) read the eulogy/Kipling's poem about Gunga Din over the body of the fallen hero? I did a little, especially when I saw Cary Grant wince out some tears. And when the Bagpipers start playing the marching song, and the ghost of Din in the full uniform of a British soldier hovers over? Heartfelt ending. I was cheering for Din. It cost him his life, but he did truly save the regiment from slaughter. The least they could have done was give him a posthumous military rank.

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[–] deathtoallbutmetal 15 years ago

Thanks for the spoiler warning right after telling anyone who skims this board that the main character will die.

Probably even nicer of me to bump it to the top of the page.

[–] ndenton-1 13 years ago

Gunga Din's "Ghost" or future re-incarnated self?

Gunga Din was a Hindu. His beliefs were that the next life he would obtain would be better or worse than this one based on his actions in previous lives. For Gunga Din becoming a "Bugler" in the next life was his dream of a prefect "heaven". Perhaps a bit naive and low class to us but to him (an Untouchable)it would have been Nirvana.

[–] johnnyb10 11 years ago

When I was a kid in the early 70's, I had a new-fangled cassette tape recorder. I walked up to my Dad & asked him to say a few words & he recited a few versus of his favorite poem, Guna Din. So I listened to this recording of my Dad over & over. Now, wherever I see that last scene in the movie when the poem is read, I hear my Dad's, now long gone voice & I loose it completly.

[–] Gus-69 10 years ago

What a useless spoiler alert. Cretin.

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[–] Lucky_Man 8 years ago

It hit me as well. Hard and fast. What a wonderful film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2uOzV4glRs

[–] slimone (7996) 7 years ago

Love this movie! Was that really Rudyard Kipling at the end?