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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) More at IMDbPro »

• Reported to be Adolf Hitler's favorite film.
  
  
• Henry Wilcoxon was initially cast as Lt. Forsythe but was dissatisfied with the role and was replaced by Franchot Tone. The official reason was that he had a scheduling conflict with the movie The Crusades (1935). Four days of retakes with Tone were required.
  
  
• Paramount hired hundreds of Paiute Indians from nearby reservations and Hindu fruit and olive pickers from California's Napa Valley and Imperial Valley to play the Afridi tribesmen in the battle sequences.
  
  
• This is the film where Douglass Dumbrille says, "We have ways of making men talk," although everybody remembers it as, "We have ways of making you talk."
  
  
• One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
  
  

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