Storm Over Bengal

Storm Over Bengal (1938)

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.

star 5.2
  • Release Date: 1938-11-14
  • Runtime: 1h 5min
  • Director: Sidney Salkow

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Cast

  • Patric Knowles

    Captain Jeffrey Allison

  • Richard Cromwell

    Lt. Neil Allison

  • Rochelle Hudson

    Joan Lattimore

  • Douglass Dumbrille

    Ramin Khan

  • Colin Tapley

    Hallett

  • Gilbert Emery

    Colonel Torrance

  • Douglas Walton

    Terry

  • Halliwell Hobbes

    Sir John Galt

  • John Burton

    Sir Austin Carter

  • Clyde Cook

    Alf

  • Claud Allister

    Redding

  • Pedro de Cordoba

    Abdul Mir

  • Edward Van Sloan

    Maharajah of Lhanapur

  • Guy Bellis

    Soldier

  • Yakima Canutt

    Tribesman

  • Guy D'Ennery

    Tribesman

  • John Davidson

    Aide to Ramin Khan

  • Ralph Dunn

    Soldier

  • Frank Ellis

    Tribesman

  • Lal Chand Mehra

    Aide to Abdul Mir

  • Bob Reeves

    Soldier

  • Dorothy Tree

    Mrs. Massarene

  • Bud Wolfe

    Tribesman