The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 movie. The plot concerns the story of British soldiers defending the borders of India from nomadic raiders. It stars Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Monte Blue, Akim Tamiroff, Sir Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Smith, Kathleen Burke, and J. Carrol Naish. The film was written by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston and Achmed Abdullah, from a novel by Francis Yeats-Brown. It was directed by Henry Hathaway.
The Lives of a BengalLancer, once thought to be among the most difficult to find DiscoVision titles, is a classic case of showing that DiscoVision did, on occasion, know what it was doing.
The Lives of a BengalLancer was re-issued by MCA/Universal Home Video (Catalog #: 21002) in November 1992 as a 2 sided CLV disc.