Storm Over Bengal (1938)
Directed by Sidney Salkow · 65 min · Adventure
0.9 TOPICAL score · #6,663 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Storm Over Bengal (1938, directed by Sidney Salkow) has a TOPICAL score of 0.9 - ranked 6,663 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and historical impact, and lowest on cast. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Audiences: TMDB 6/10 (7 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 6 languages.
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- AudienceTMDB 6/10 (7 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 6 languages
- Still read225 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Patric Knowles (actor #1,851), Richard Cromwell (actor #1,840), Rochelle Hudson, Douglass Dumbrille (actor #1,759)