Bengal Brigade
{{Short description|1954 film by László Benedek}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Bengal Brigade
| image = Bengal Brigade FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption = Film poster by Reynold Brown
| director = Laslo Benedek
| producer = Ted Richmond
|based_on = Bengal Tigers by Hall Hunter
| writer = Seton I. Miller
Richard Alan Simmons
| narrator =
| starring = Rock Hudson
Arlene Dahl
Ursula Thiess
| music = Hans J. Salter
| cinematography = Maury Gertsman
| editing = Frank Gross
| studio = Universal-International
| distributor = Universal-International
| released = {{Film date|1954|10|27}}
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Bengal Brigade is a 1954 American adventure war film directed by Laslo Benedek and starring Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl and Ursula Thiess.Bego p.65Richards p.360 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.Goble p.234 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
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- 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
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Production
Rock Hudson replaced Tyrone Power, who instead starred in 20th Century Fox's King of the Khyber Rifles.p/103 Griffin, Mark All That Heaven Allows Harper Collins 2018 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.{{cite web | url=https://cinemaretro.com/index.php/archives/3108-MATINEE-RANCH-THE-IVERSONS-MOVIE-RANCH-STORY.html | title=MATINEE RANCH - THE IVERSon's MOVIE RANCH STORY - Cinema Retro }}
References
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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
- {{IMDb title|0046767}}
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Category:American historical films
Category:British Empire war films
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:Films directed by László Benedek
Category:1950s historical films
Category:Films set in the British Raj
Category:Films set in the 1850s
Category:Films about the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Category:1950s English-language films
Category:English-language action films
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