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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Bengal Brigade<br />
| image_size =<br />
| image = Bengal Brigade FilmPoster.jpeg<br />
| caption = [[Film poster]] by [[Reynold Brown]]<br />
| director = [[Laslo Benedek]]<br />
| producer = [[Ted Richmond]]<br />
|based_on = ''Bengal Tigers'' by [[Hall Hunter]]<br />
| writer = [[Seton I. Miller]] <br> [[Richard Alan Simmons]]<br />
| narrator =<br />
| starring = [[Rock Hudson]]<br/>[[Arlene Dahl]]<br/>[[Ursula Thiess]]<br />
| music = [[Hans J. Salter]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Maury Gertsman]]<br />
| editing = Frank Gross <br />
| studio = [[Universal Pictures]] <br />
| distributor = Universal Pictures<br />
| released = {{Film date|1954|10|27}}<br />
| runtime = 87 minutes<br />
| country = United States<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget =<br />
| gross =<br />
}}<br />
'''''Bengal Brigade''''' is a 1954 American [[adventure fiction|adventure]] [[war film]] directed by [[Laslo Benedek]] and starring [[Rock Hudson]], [[Arlene Dahl]] and [[Ursula Thiess]].<ref>Bego p.65</ref><ref>Richards p.360</ref> The film was produced and distributed by [[Universal Pictures]], based on the 1952 novel ''Bengal Tigers'' by [[Hall Hunter]].<ref>Goble p.234</ref> It was released in Britain as '''''Bengal Rifles'''''.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Set in [[British India]] in 1857, at the outbreak of the [[Indian Mutiny]]. A British officer, Captain Claybourne ([[Rock Hudson]]), is [[cashiered]] from his [[regiment]] over a charge of disobeying orders, but finds that his duty to his men is far from over. He loves his Colonel's daughter ([[Arlene Dahl]]) and redeems himself in fighting renegade [[Sepoy]]s.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
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* [[Rock Hudson]] as Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne<br />
* [[Arlene Dahl]] as Vivian Morrow<br />
* [[Ursula Thiess]] as Latah<br />
* [[Torin Thatcher]] as Col. Morrow<br />
* [[Arnold Moss]] as Rajah Karam<br />
* [[Dan O'Herlihy]] as Capt. Ronald Blaine <br />
* Harold Gordon as Hari Lal<br />
* [[Michael Ansara]] as Sgt. Maj. Furan Singh<br />
* [[Leonard Strong (actor)|Leonard Strong]] as Mahindra<br />
* [[Shepard Menken]] as Bulbir<br />
* [[Sujata and Asoka|Sujata Rubener]] as Indian Dancer <br />
* [[Sujata and Asoka|Asoka Rubener]] as Indian Dancer <br />
* [[Jack Raine]] as Col. Rivers<br />
* Ramsay Hill as Maj. Jennings<br />
* Leslie Denison as Capt. Ian McLeod<br />
* [[John Dodsworth (actor)|John Dodsworth]] as Capt. Guy FitzMorell<br />
* [[Paul Marion (actor)|Paul Marion]] as Hardev <br />
* [[Charles Wagenheim]] as Headman<br />
* [[Robert Bice]] as Native Sergeant<br />
* [[Hy Anzell]] as Sepoy <br />
* [[Mel Welles]] as Merchant<br />
* [[Frank Lackteen]] as Merchant<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* Bego, Mark. ''Rock Hudson: Public and Private : an Unauthorized Biography''. New American Library, 1986.<br />
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.<br />
* Richards, Jeffrey. ''Visions of Yesterday''. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.<br />
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*{{IMDb title|0046767}}<br />
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