Sergeants 3

Sergeants 3
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Sturges
Written byW.R. Burnett
Produced byFrank Sinatra
Howard W. Koch
StarringFrank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Peter Lawford
Sammy Davis Jr.
Joey Bishop
CinematographyWinton C. Hoch
Edited byFerris Webster
Music byBilly May
Production
companies
Exxex Productions
Meadway-Claude Productions Company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • February 10, 1962 (1962-02-10) (U.S.)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$4.3 million (US/Canada)[1][2]

Sergeants 3 is a 1962 American comedy/Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. It was the last film to feature all five members of the Rat Pack, as Sinatra would no longer speak to or work with Lawford following the abrupt cancellation in March 1962 of a visit by Lawford's brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, to Sinatra's Palm Springs house (Kennedy opted to stay at Bing Crosby's estate instead).

The film is a remake of Gunga Din (1939), with the setting moved from India to the American West.

  1. ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. January 9, 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures
  2. ^ Glenn Lovell, Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008 p178