Bengal Brigade

Bengal Brigade
Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed by	Laslo Benedek
Written by	Seton I. Miller Richard Alan Simmons
Based on	Bengal Tigers by Hall Hunter
Produced by	Ted Richmond
Starring	Rock Hudson Arlene Dahl Ursula Thiess
Cinematography	Maury Gertsman
Edited by	Frank Gross
Music by	Hans J. Salter
Production company	Universal-International
Distributed by	Universal-International
Release date	October 27, 1954 (1954-10-27)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Bengal Brigade is a 1954 American adventure war film directed by Laslo Benedek and starring Rock Hudson, Arlene Dahl and Ursula Thiess.^[1][2] The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, based on the 1952 novel The Bengal Tiger: a Tale of India by Edison Marshall writing as Hall Hunter.^[3] It was released in Britain as Bengal Rifles.

Set in British India in 1857, at the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny. A British officer, Captain Claybourne (Rock Hudson), is cashiered from his regiment over a charge of disobeying orders, but finds that his duty to his men is far from over. He loves his Colonel's daughter (Arlene Dahl) and redeems himself in fighting renegade Sepoys.

Rock Hudson replaced Tyrone Power, who instead starred in 20th Century Fox's King of the Khyber Rifles.^[4] The production was shot on Universal's backlot and the Iverson Movie Ranch where The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) and The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) were also filmed.^[5]

• Bego, Mark. Rock Hudson: Public and Private : an Unauthorized Biography. New American Library, 1986.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Richards, Jeffrey. Visions of Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.

• Bengal Brigade at IMDb

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