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...your review of The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (TIME, Jan. 21) you report that most of the picture was filmed on location within 50 miles of Hollywood...
...June 1756, Suraj-ud-Dowlah, Nawab of Bengal, capturing Fort William at Calcutta, put 146 English prisoners into a dungeon, 18 ft. by 14 ft., with two small windows. After one night in the dungeon, all but 23 of the prisoners were dead. The shot of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Clive of India cost $30,000, stays on the screen for 15 seconds...
...Lives of a Bengal Lancer has been in production ever since Paramount bought Major Francis Yeats-Brown's best-selling autobiography four years ago. Director Ernest Schoedsack (Grass, Chang) went to India, spent $200,000 on background shots of which 100 ft. appear in the finished picture. Almost every writer on Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing...
When The Lives of a Bengal Lancer last week had its Manhattan premiere, critics unanimously acclaimed it with all the adjectives at their command. Admirers of Author Yeats-Brown will find it as faithful to the spirit of his book as it is faithless to the text. Good shot: Lieut. Forsythe discovering that the squeakings of a reed flute, which he plays to annoy Captain McGregor, have attracted the unfavorable attention of a cobra...
...Lives of a Bengal Lancer" is a top-notch adventure story, supplemented by capable acting. Drawing freely from Rudyard Kipling and other authors who have portrayed men under stress of physical danger, Adolph Zukor has transformed William Yeats-Brown's book into an hour of absorbing entertainment...