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In the great 1939 film "Gunga Din", McChesney and Cutter slip a "mickey" into the punchbowl for Higginbottam.?

What is the substance or drug or chemical that Cutter (Cary Grant) secretly pours into the punchbowl and incapacitates Higginbottam immediately upon drinking two cups of the poisoned punch?


Its called a Mickey Finn, named after a bar owner in old Chigago who used to drug his customers and rob them. The usual drug is chloral hydrate.

Gunga Din - Mercury Reflecting Pan Effect.avi

Great physical special effect in the opening credits of the 1939 classic Gunga Din. The shimmering transition on the gong was done by reflecting ...

Gunga Din

Burma Star Veteran Malcolm North reciting Gunga Din at the RAFA club Ripon North Yorkshire after Remembrance Sunday Parade 2007

TCM Announces Guest Programmers for 2012, Including Jules Feiffer, Anthony ...

Via press release:

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, world-renowned chef and author Anthony Bourdain, three-time Oscar® nominee Debra Winger, Emmy®-winning actress Ellen Barkin, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee, Emmy-winning television icon Regis Philbin and Peabody Award-winning journalist and news anch or Jim Lehrer are coming to Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in 2012 to participate in the network's popular Guest Programmer series.

TCM's Guest Programmer showcase invites notable figures from such fields as film, television, music and books to program an entire night of their favorite films and present them on the air with TCM host Robert Osborne.

"One of the things I enjoy doing most at TCM is sitting down with people from different backgrounds to talk about movies they love, and finding out why," said Osborne. "This year's list of Guest Programmers is an amazing mix of remarkable people who've chosen an intriguing mix of films for reasons I think TCM's audience will find, in most cases, surprising and absolutely fascinating."

Gunga Din 1939 - Bookshelf


Colonial India and the making of empire cinema, image, ideology and identity
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Colonial India and the making of empire cinema, image, ideology and identity

Gunga Din (1939): spectre of Hindu domination At a crucial stage of Indian national independence, when a very serious challenge had been mounted against the ...

The director's idea, the path to great directing
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The director's idea, the path to great directing

“Gunga Din” (1939) “Gunga Din” is an action–adventure set in 19th-century Northern India, where the British army is combating a Thuggee uprising. ...

Gunga Din 1939 - News


Les meilleurs films de ce 20 avril
Les meilleurs films de ce 20 avril De George Stevens (1939). Avec Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen. Tiré d'un poème de Rudyard Kupling - dont le personnage intervient d'ailleurs dans le film -, Gunga Din est un grand classique du film d'aventures d'avant-guerre. Si le scénario ne se prive