The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Bravo, Kino Lorber. The best transfer yet. It's all here in glorious black and white: Noble Johnson and Jameson Thomas shot off their horses, welcome at the train depot, durbar, variations on a cobra theme, Emir's banquet, la femme fatale, burning bamboo slivers, escape, poetry and sacrifice. If LIVES is not the best Action movie ever made, it's darn close to it. Henry Hathaway would have been proud of this release. And now, Kino, the same job on Milestone's A WALK IN THE SUN.

Gary Cooper is a Canadian who has joined the Bengal Lancers. The film tells the story of a British Military unit in Northern India who must protect British interest in India. The movie was made in California and many of the "Indians" in the film were native Americans and some real Indian migrant workers. The acting is great and I enjoyed the story even if it did support British imperialism. The movie has many of the standard collection of British Actors who always do a great job is being British. I enjoyed the movie. I remember visiting the fort used in the movie when I was a boy. I took a long time but I finally got to see the movie so many adults were excited about. This is one of the reasons I liked the film. Gary Cooper has that talent that makes any move he is in enjoyable. Cooper is tasked with training two new officers who have just joined the outfit. One is the son of Colonel Stone, the commanding officer of the fort. When his son is captured by the enemy Cooper and the other new recruit, against orders go to the rescue. It was this movie that gave us one of the most remembered lines in movie history, "We have ways of making men talk." Cooper as always is the Hero. It's a great movie. I recommend it.

Classic and very entertaining adventure film(starring Gary Cooper,Franchot Tone and Richard Cromwell and directed by Henry Hathaway) about British Empire building in India and the making of a boy into a soldier and a man. Cooper and Tone are buddies who are put in charge of Cromwell - the inexperienced son of the regimental commander(Sir Guy Standing). Cromwell gets himself captured by the enemy,and,in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue Cromwell,Cooper and Tone are also captured,tortured and imprisoned. The film's exciting climax focuses on the attempted escape of Cooper,Tone and Cromwell. It is sad to write here that superlative adventure films such as "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" are no longer being made.In view of that fact,we should all be grateful that these wonderful(and,admittedly,some not so wonderful) films are available today via the various Vault Collection Series!

If you can get past the fact that this is not an accurate portrayal of War nor is it particularly politically correct in certain areas then you're going to enjoy this classic Adventure film. The Unbelievablebility of this film is what makes it so entertaining to watch.Plot line is rather predictable but that hardly matters has the true story revolves around the relationships between the men in the unit and the regimental Commander and his newly arrived greenhorn son he hasn't seen since he was a baby.

One of my all time favorites, Henry Hathaway's classic adventure tale has just thrilled me again for the umpteenth time. I have been watching this film for a lifetime and it never loses its appeal. The story is tops, the acting sensational, and the photography (especially the shots of the Bengal Lancers doing their thing) is spectacular. Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone are great together and Sir Guy Standing is a standout as the salty old colonel. If I could only watch one film ever again, this would be on the short list.

If you like the ol' Classic's based on the Colonial period of Britain - this is surely one - and one that's rarely seen.Universal did a great job in bringing this Gary Cooper/Franchot Tone movie to Video for home audiences

Beware..this is 4k and will not play in blueray players.

I enjoyed the new restored blue ray will send my dvd to son.

Great movie, as good as I remembered

Great movie; dependable seller

英国領インドを舞台とする歴史アクション・アドヴェンチャー。1935年、ヘンリー・ハサウェイ監督作。若き日の颯爽たるゲーリー・クーパー主演。この人、ほんとうに軍服がよく似合う。彼にとっては「モロッコ」「オペラハット」とならぶ初期の傑作。インドに駐屯する英国部隊を率いる大佐サー・ガイ・スタンディング。大佐に反撥を抱く大尉ゲーリー・クーパー。その部隊に、中尉フランチョット・トーン、さらに大佐の息子のリチャード・クロムウェル少尉が赴任してくる…。軍務と家族愛の間で揺れる父と息子。ラストの銃撃シーンが凄い。バグパイプの音に呼び寄せられるコブラ。槍騎兵のクラシックなユニフォームには当時のインドの空気感まで感じられる。このブルーレイは鮮明な映像とは言い難い。既発売の国内版DVDと大して変わらない。"4K Master" という表記はあるが、じっさいにはデジタルリマスターしていないと思われる。英語字幕付き。日本語字幕なし。製作はパラマウント旧作品の版権を持つユニヴァーサルの子会社であるEMKA。販売はNYに本社を持つ Kino Lorber。廉価なのは大歓迎だが、高画質を期待する向きにはお薦めできない。