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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Francis Yeats-Brown. Bantam Books, 1946 - Reference - 217 pages. In 1905, Francis Yeats-Brown, then a young cavalryman, arrives in Bengal to serve in the 17th Bengal Lancers on the Northwest Frontier of British India. He quickly discovers that life in the presence of his fellow soldiers is anything but boring.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) starring Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell and directed by Henry Hathaway.
5 de abr. de 2019 · The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Directed by Henry Hathaway. 109mins (1935) Gary Cooper - Lieutenant McGregor. The 41st Bengal Lancers are stationed on the Northwest Frontier of British India, guarding against Afridi invaders led by wily Mohammed Khan. Experienced (though insubordinate) Lieut. McGregor is joined by two new arrivals, haughty ...
Other articles where The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is discussed: Henry Hathaway: Early work: …next film, the adventure drama The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), which received seven Academy Award nominations, including best picture and Hathaway’s only nod for directing. In 1935 Cooper also starred in Peter Ibbetson, a romance-fantasy.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. India was one of the most adventurous and romantic places on Earth in the early twentieth century. Though decades of political unrest, and eventual independence from Britain, were only a few years away, India in the early 1910s was a magnet for young men with a longing for adventure.
Still, if you're able to accept these films as escapist yarns that were made in very different times, you're bound to enjoy Henry Hathaway's action-packed The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), which, along with George Stevens' Gunga Din (1939), is widely considered the best of the Imperialist lot.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is the thrilling tale of the heroic men who guarded the British Empire’s perilous Khyber Pass in India. Surly McGregor (Cooper) and wry, blue-blooded Forsythe (Franchot Tone, Phantom Lady) are officers in charge of newcomer Lieutenant Stone (Richard Cromwell, Baby Face Morgan), the commanding officer’s inexperienced son.
