Last Sunday evening I had one of the more remarkable telephone conversations of my life. At first I simply heard a man’s cultured voice, with a smooth and soft foreign accent, very politely say, ...

Oscar-winning sound designer, editor and mixer Ben Burtt (“Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”) and Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Craig Barron (“The Curious ...

Back around 1965 there was a very funny comedy record. I think the title was “The Last Blast of the Blasted Bugler,” based on the story of Gunga Din. The artist, as I recall, was Sonny Gianardo, which ...

Born in British India, Gunga Din always wanted to join the British army like many of his fellow Indians, but Indians were not allowed to do so. So he starts observing the British and learns ...

Three generations of our family were served well by a non-human member. He was named Gunga Din after a faithful servant in a Rudyard Kipling tale. Gunga, a 1931 Model A Ford Roadster, was a gift to my ...

No 79 Gunga Din 1939, U, Universal Directed by George Stevens Universal has just released a box of 21 Cary Grant movies, cheap at £149.99, many of them classics, some available individually. Among the ...

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they ...