Release Date

14 Nov, 1938

Runtime

01:05: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.

Original Title

Storm Over Bengal

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Actors

Patric Knowles

Richard Cromwell

Rochelle Hudson

Douglass Dumbrille

Colin Tapley

Gilbert Emery

Douglas Walton

Halliwell Hobbes

John Burton

Clyde Cook

Claud Allister

Pedro de Cordoba

Edward Van Sloan

Guy Bellis

Yakima Canutt

Guy D'Ennery

John Davidson

Ralph Dunn

Frank Ellis

Lal Chand Mehra

Bob Reeves

Crew

Sidney Salkow

Yakima Canutt

Cy Feuer