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
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.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.
References
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.
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