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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American adventure film starring Gary Cooper, directed by Henry Hathaway, and written by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, and Achmed Abdullah. The setting and title come from the 1930 autobiography of the British soldier Francis Yeats-Brown.
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In an era where Hollywood has wholeheartedly embraced the view that the source of all evil in the world is white supremacy, it is somewhat amusing to see that in its past, the industry openly propagated the virtues of colonial empires. Few films did this as explicitly, yet as successfully, as the 1935 adventure film *The Lives of a Bengal Lancer*. The film is nominally based on the eponymous best-selling 1930 memoir…More
