Storm Over Bengal

Storm Over Bengal (1938)

Adventure

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.

Director: Sidney Salkow

Casts

	Patric Knowles as Captain Jeffrey Allison
	Richard Cromwell as Lt. Neil Allison
	Rochelle Hudson as Joan Lattimore
	Douglass Dumbrille as Ramin Khan
	Colin Tapley as Hallett
	Gilbert Emery as Colonel Torrance
	Douglas Walton as Terry
	Halliwell Hobbes as Sir John Galt
	John Burton as Sir Austin Carter
	Clyde Cook as Alf
	Claud Allister as Redding
	Pedro de Cordoba as Abdul Mir
	Edward Van Sloan as Maharajah of Lhanapur
	Guy Bellis as Soldier
	Yakima Canutt as Tribesman
	Guy D'Ennery as Tribesman
	John Davidson as Aide to Ramin Khan
	Ralph Dunn as Soldier
	Frank Ellis as Tribesman
	Lal Chand Mehra as Aide to Abdul Mir
	Bob Reeves as Soldier
	Dorothy Tree as Mrs. Massarene
	Bud Wolfe as Tribesman

Crew