Near Lone Pine in Inyo County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
"Gunga Din" Filmed Here
Erected 1992 by Lone Pine Sierra Film Festival and the People of Lone Pine.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Entertainment. A significant historical year for this entry is 1938.
Location. 36° 35.076′ N, 118° 6.929′ W. Marker is near Lone Pine, California, in Inyo County. Marker is on Horseshoe Meadow Road, half a mile south of Whitney Portal Road, on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Lone Pine CA 93545, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Movie Flats (approx. 0.8 miles away); Mt. Whitney Pack Trains (approx. 2.8 miles away); Lone Pine Film Museum (approx. 3.2 miles away); The Adobe Wall (approx. 3.2 miles away); The Duke and the Dow (approx. 3.2 miles away); Lone Pine's 'Movie Man' (approx. 3.2 miles away); Wedding of the Waters Pageant (approx. 3.3 miles away); Fred French Family Oak (approx. 3˝ miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Lone Pine.
Regarding "Gunga Din" Filmed Here. California prospectors sympathetic to the South during the American Civil War named the Alabama Hills for the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship.
When the CSS Alabama was sunk off the coast of Normandy by the USS Kearsarge in 1864, prospectors sympathetic to the North named a mining district, a mountain pass, a mountain peak and a town after the USS Kearsarge
The movie Gunga Din was inspired by a poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1892.
The poem Gunga Din is narrated by an English soldier who is wounded in battle in India. Gunga Din, an Indian water-bearer (bhishti), saves the soldier's life but is himself shot and killed.
The 1939 movie was remade in 1961 as Sergeants 3, a western starring the Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop. The Gunga Din character was played by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Many elements of the 1939 film were also incorporated into Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on March 30, 2016, by Alvis Hendley of San Francisco, California. This page has been viewed 933 times since then and 35 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 30, 2016, by Alvis Hendley of San Francisco, California. • Syd Whittle was the editor who published this page.