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The Trifecta: Racist, Sexist and Boring! For years my grandfather has been telling me to see this movie. It is his favorite and he promised that I would love it as well...unfortunately this was not the case. It is the story of British officers in India who are taken captive by an evil Indian dictator, who looks an awful lot like Gandhi, and the pet-like Indian man who follows them around and ultimately saves them. The puppy-like man is Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe in really really bad make-up), a wide-eyed worshipper of everything British who befriends Cary Grant's officer and learns how to be a soldier. This film is racist on an epic scale. Indian people are seen as savage and brutal, while the British colonizers are proper and righteous. It is sexist in that there is one woman in the entire film and she is holding back one of the officers from reaching his true potential. Not only that but it has a nonsensical plot that meanders and bores, the effects are bad even for 1939, and the editing is terrible. Action scenes are sped up on film to make them seem more violent and real, but it only works to make it seem like a weird mime show. The pacing is slow and the acting is terrible. Grant skates in and out of a c*cknie accent for the entire film making you want to tear your own ears off. The make-up turning white men into Indian men is about as offensive as it comes, right up there with 'Birth of a Nation' (1915). Oh and the score, one of the worst Hollywood scores I have ever heard. The orchestrations make it seem like a sweet little Disney movie while the soldiers are bombing and killing the Indian people. It is a really weird combination that makes me feel kind of queasy, like the life of an Indian man is equal to that of a cartoon duck. Rudyard Kipling would, hopefully, be ashamed his poem was used for such a horrible and offensive flick. A lot of really great films came out in 1939, 'Gone With The Wind', 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington' and 'The Wizard of Oz' among them, this is most certainly not one of them. Skip it. email this review to a friend
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