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 (1954-10-27)
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

1. Bego p.65
2. Richards p.360
3. Goble p.234
4. p/103 Griffin, Mark All That Heaven Allows Harper Collins 2018
5. "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