of all the british imperialist movie like four feather and charge of the light brigade for example and this movie stand out a the cream of the crop . it reflect a time when the sun never set on the british empire . get over it . i would not go into why because so many others have express the many reason that make this film great . i have visit the alabama hill and have photograph the pas through which the british marched and it remain a it be and unchanged by time and encroachment by man and vandal . and even though i know it come and see din lie dead on a stretcher and when these line be read yes and din . din . din . you lazarushian leather gunga din . though i have belt you and flay you and by the livin gawd that make you and youre a good man than i be and gunga din i still and at 54 year of age and get misty eye and anyone who say they do not be a liar . the range of emotion within it be the mark of a great movie . like the end of another great film and of mouse and men .