"You seem to think warfare an English invention. Have you never heard of Chandragupta Maurya? He slaughtered all the armies left in India by Alexander the Great. India was a mighty nation then while Englishmen still dwelt in caves and painted themselves blue." The above quote is from the 1939 film Gunga Din and it is uttered by the guru of the Thuggees, an Indian murder cult which operated for hundreds of years. In the movie, three British soldiers- Sergeants Cutter, MacChesney, and Ballantine, are trapped in the Temple of Gold, which is the hideout for the Thuggees. They insist that their army regiment will rescue them and wipe out the Thugs, leading to this sneering statement from the guru.
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"You seem to think warfare an English invention. Have you never heard of Chandragupta Maurya? He slaughtered all the armies left in India by Alexander the Great. India was a mighty nation then while Englishmen still dwelt in caves and painted themselves blue." Related Posts:Doris Day died last week at the age of 97. The first film I ever saw her in was Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much from 1956. In it, she plays Jo McKenna, a Broadway singer who is married to Dr. Ben McKenna (played by Jimmy Stewart). The couple are vacationing in Morocco and inadvertantly become involved in an international assassination conspiracy when a man who had been investigating the plot is stabbed on the street. Dr. Ben tries to treat him, but the man dies after gasping out some information about the assassination to him. The McKennas go to the police station to give a statement about what happened and what the man said but before they can do so, they receive a call telling them that their son Hank has been kidnapped and will be killed if they say anything.
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