Bengal Brigade

Bengal Brigade
Bengal Brigade
	Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed by	Laslo Benedek
Written by	Seton I. Miller ; Richard Alan Simmons
Based on	Bengal Tigers by Hall Hunter
Produced by	Ted Richmond
Starring	Rock Hudson; Arlene Dahl; Ursula Thiess
Cinematography	Maury Gertsman
Edited by	Frank Gross
Music by	Hans J. Salter
Production; company	Universal-International
Distributed by	Universal-International
Release date	October 27, 1954;
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bengal Brigade is a 1954 American adventure war film directed by Laslo Benedek and starring Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl and Ursula Thiess.^[1]^[2] The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, based on the 1952 novel The Bengal Tiger: a Tale of India by Edison Marshall writing as Hall Hunter.^[3] It was released in Britain as Bengal Rifles.

Plot

Set in British India in 1857, at the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny. A British officer, Captain Claybourne (Rock Hudson), is cashiered from his regiment over a charge of disobeying orders, but finds that his duty to his men is far from over. He loves his Colonel's daughter (Arlene Dahl) and redeems himself in fighting renegade Sepoys.

Cast

Rock Hudson as Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne
Arlene Dahl as Vivian Morrow
Ursula Thiess as Latah
Torin Thatcher as Col. Morrow
Arnold Moss as Rajah Karam
Dan O'Herlihy as Capt. Ronald Blaine
Harold Gordon as Hari Lal
Michael Ansara as Sgt. Maj. Furan Singh
Leonard Strong as Mahindra
Shepard Menken as Bulbir
Sujata Rubener as Indian Dancer
Asoka Rubener as Indian Dancer
Jack Raine as Col. Rivers
Ramsay Hill as Maj. Jennings
Leslie Denison as Capt. Ian McLeod
John Dodsworth as Capt. Guy Fitz-Morell
Paul Marion as Hardev
Charles Wagenheim as Headman
Robert Bice as Native Sergeant
Hy Anzell as Sepoy
Mel Welles as Merchant
Frank Lackteen as Merchant

Production

Rock Hudson replaced Tyrone Power, who instead starred in 20th Century Fox's King of the Khyber Rifles.^[4] The production was shot on Universal's backlot and the Iverson Movie Ranch where The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) and The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) were also filmed.^[5]

References

^ Bego p.65
^ Richards p.360
^ Goble p.234
^ p/103 Griffin, Mark All That Heaven Allows Harper Collins 2018
^ "MATINEE RANCH - THE IVERSon's MOVIE RANCH STORY - Cinema Retro".

Bibliography

Bego, Mark. Rock Hudson: Public and Private : an Unauthorized Biography. New American Library, 1986.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Richards, Jeffrey. Visions of Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.

External links

Bengal Brigade at IMDb

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[1] Bego p.65

[2] Richards p.360

[3] Goble p.234

[4] /103 Griffin, Mark All That Heaven Allows Harper Collins 2018

[5] "MATINEE RANCH - THE IVERSon's MOVIE RANCH STORY - Cinema Retro".

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