FILM CHOICES

Gunga Din, 1.50pm, BBC2

LOOSELY based on the poem by Rudyard Kipling, this rip-roaring colonial adventure stars Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr as fun-loving sergeants fighting the Thugs in 1880s India. Sam Jaffe plays the eponymous water-bearer who saves the day.

Mr & Mrs Smith, 10pm, Ch5

COMEDY actioner that heralded the arrival of a Hollywood power couple. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (pictured) star as a husband and wife who both work secretly as professional assassins. Imagine their shock and horror when they are assigned to kill one another.