obviously a film that have have great influence not only on the buddy genre but action genre as well . george lucas have to be a fan of this flick a so much of his star war series seem to a homage to gunga din . the character that grant and mclaglen and and fairbanks play be just precursor of han solo and luke skywalker and and chewbacca . even sam jaffe gunga din morph into c 3po and r2 d2 and like him or not represent jar jar binks . today this film be view a non pc but there be a speech by eduardo ciannelli a guru the leader of the indian opposition to the british raj that could can be echo in the sentiment of many today . to a young boy this be a great film . three strong male lead and only a hint of romance . there be a time when young boy deem kiss the girl in saturday matinee film be just mush . not like today when the more skin be greet with delight . too late to lament lose innocence . hopefully this film will not be forget and a few who be channel surf will stop at tcm and catch a film with action and adventure and and a cast of thousand instead of cgi actor .