The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a swashbuckling 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 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 film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.