Revealing mistake: When they are feeding Annie the Elephant medicine with a wooden spoon, there is obviously no fluid in the spoon.
Revealing mistake: When the snakes in the pit are shown, all their heads are held up by black strings. (01:17:00)
Gunga Din (1939)
2 revealing mistakes
Directed by: George Stevens
Starring: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sam Jaffe, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Factual error: The film is set during the late 1880's in India. The rifles/bayonets carried by all the British soldiers and Thuggee Indians are American 1890's Krag-Jorgensen rifles. Presumably done for ease of supplying American ammunition compared to British .303 ammunition.
Sgt. Thomas 'Tommy' Ballantine: You displease me greatly, and I ignore the both of you.
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