The Lives of Bengal Lancer - 1935

Henry Wilcoxon was initially cast as Lt. Forsythe but was dissatisfied with the role and was replaced by Franchot Tone. The official reason was that he had a scheduling conflict with the movie The Crusades (1935). Four days of retakes with Tone were required.

Paramount hired hundreds of Paiute Indians from nearby reservations and Hindu fruit and olive pickers from California's Napa Valley and Imperial Valley to play the Afridi tribesmen in the battle sequences.

This is the film where Douglass Dumbrille says, "We have ways of making men talk," although everybody remembers it as, "We have ways of making you talk."

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Cast of The Lives of A Bengal Lancer

Gary Cooper as Lieutenant Alan McGregor
Franchot Tone as Lieutenant Forsythe
Richard Cromwell as Lieutenant Donald Stone
Guy Standing as Colonel Tom Stone (as Sir Guy Standing)
C. Aubrey Smith as Major Hamilton
Kathleen Burke as Tania Volkanskaya
Douglass Dumbrille as Mohammed Khan
Monte Blue as Hamzulla Khan
Colin Tapley as Lieutenant Barrett
Akim Tamiroff as Otamanu, Emir of Gopal
J. Carrol Naish as Grand Vizier
Noble Johnson as Ram Singh
Lumsden Hare as Major General Sir Thomas Woodley
Jameson Thomas as Hendrickson