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Louis D. Lighton (November 25, 1895 – February 1, 1963) was an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote for 40 films between 1920 and 1927. He also produced 30 films between 1928 and 1951. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Louis D. Lighton (* 25. November 1895 in Omaha, Nebraska; † 1. Februar 1963 in Palma, Spanien) war ein US-amerikanischer Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent. Leben. Lighton begann seine Laufbahn im Filmgeschäft zunächst als Drehbuchautor.
Louis D. Lighton (November 25, 1895 – February 1, 1963) was an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote for 40 films between 1920 and 1927. He also produced 30 films between 1928 and 1951. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and died in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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On the northwest frontier of India during the British Raj, Scottish CanadianLieutenant Alan McGregor, in charge of newcomers, welcomes two replacements to the 41st Bengal Lancers: Lieutenant John Forsythe and Lieutenant Donald Stone, the son of the unit's commander, Colonel Tom Stone. Lieutenant Stone, a "cub" (meaning a newly commissioned officer)...
Franchot Tone as Lieutenant John Forsythe, an upper-class cavalryman in his mid-twenties from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Transferred from the Blues, one of the two regiments at the time...Stock crisis
Paramount originally planned to produce the film in 1931 and sent cinematographers Ernest B. Schoedsack and Rex Wimpy to India to film location shots such as a tiger hunt. However, much of the film stock deteriorated in the hot sun while on location, so when the film was eventually made, much of the production took place in the hills surrounding Los Angeles, where Northern Paiute peoplewere used as extras. According to Hathaway, Schoedack struggled with the studio so was replaced by Stephen R...
Filming
Among the filming locations were Lone Pine, Calif., Buffalo Flats in Malibu, Calif., the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, Calif., and the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif.For the climactic half-hour battle sequence at the end of the film, an elaborate set was built in the Iverson Gorge, part of the Iverson Movie Ranch, to depict Mogala, the mountain stronghold of Mohammed Khan.
Box office
The film was released in American cinemas in January 1935. It was a big success at the box office and kicked off a cycle of Imperial adventure tales, including The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Another Dawn (1937), Gunga Din (1939), The Four Feathers (1939), and The Real Glory (1939). The film had theatrical rentals of about $1 million in the U.S. and Canada, and $1.5 million worldwide. It was the second most popular film at the British box office in 1935–36. The film was successful eno...
Critical reception and influence
Laura Elston from the magazine Canada wrote that The Lives of a Bengal Lancer did "more glory to the British traditions than the British would dare to do for themselves." In response to the film success, Frederick Herron of the Motion Picture Association of Americawrote "Hollywood is doing a very good work in selling the British Empire to the world." Writer John Howard Reid noted in his book Award-Winning Films of the 1930s that the film is considered "one of the greatest adventure films of a...
Plot discrepancies
The film shares nothing with the source book, except the setting. Reid noted in Award-Winning Films of the 1930sthat "none of the characters in the book appear in the screenplay, not even Yeats-Brown himself. The plot of the film is also entirely different."
Kirkpatrick, Ivone (1959). The Inner Circle: Memoirs. St. Martin's Press. OCLC 1101750744.Knowles, Elizabeth M. (1999). The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860173-9.Mathiews, Fraklin K. (1935). "Movies of the Month". Boys' Life. Inkprint Edition. Boys' Life. ISSN 0006-8608.Richards, Jeffrey (1973). Visions of Yesterday. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-72681-8.The Lives of a Bengal Lancer at Internet Movie DatabaseThe Lives of a Bengal Lancer at AllmovieThe Lives of a Bengal Lancer at Turner Classic MoviesThe Lives of a Bengal Lancer at the American Film Institute CatalogLouis D. Lighton (Omaha, 25 de novembre de 1895 - Palma, 1 de febrer de 1963) va ser un guionista i productor de cinema estatunidenc. Va escriure per a 40 pel·lícules entre 1920 i 1927. També va produir 30 pel·lícules entre 1928 i 1951.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (en Argentina, Tres lanceros de Bengala; en España, Tres lanceros bengalíes) es una película estadounidense de 1935 dirigida por Henry Hathaway y con Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Standing y Kathleen Burke como actores principales.
Children of Divorce is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, and Gary Cooper.
