Storm Over Bengal

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Patric KnowlesCaptain Jeffrey Allison

Richard CromwellLt. Neil Allison

Rochelle HudsonJoan Lattimore

Douglass DumbrilleRamin Khan

Colin TapleyHallett

Gilbert EmeryColonel Torrance

Douglas WaltonTerry

Halliwell HobbesSir John Galt

John Burton

John BurtonSir Austin Carter

Clyde CookAlf

Claud Allister

Claud AllisterRedding

Pedro de CordobaAbdul Mir