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* KilledMidSentence: Played with. The Lancers are taking enemy fire from the rocks. [=McGregor=] wants to charge. His superior officer says "I'd like to have you with me in a war, but for peacetime you're--", and then is shot off his horse. But he's NotQuiteDead, and manages to gasp out "...too...too impetuous" before he croaks.
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* KilledMidSentence: Played with. The Lancers are taking enemy fire from the rocks. [=McGregor=] wants to charge. His superior officer says says, "I'd like to have you with me in a war, but for peacetime you're--", and then is shot off his horse. But he's NotQuiteDead, and manages to gasp out "...too...too impetuous" before he croaks.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Col. Stone says "the service comes first", but his wife didn't understand that, which is why he doesn't have a wife anymore and hasn't seen his son in years.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Col. Stone says says, "the service comes first", but his wife didn't understand that, which is why he doesn't have a wife anymore and hasn't seen his son in years.
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* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: TropeMaker, when Mohammed Khan is threatening the officers with torture. Also a case of BeamMeUpScotty, as the actual line is "We have ways to make men talk."
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* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: TropeMaker, when Mohammed Khan is threatening the officers with torture. Also Also, a case of BeamMeUpScotty, as the actual line is "We have ways to make men talk."
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* WhiteMansBurden: Col. Stone's XO explains that Stone is the way he is because attention to duty above all else is the only way "a handful of men" can rule over 300 million natives. This being a film made in Hollywood in the 1930s, the justice of Britain's rule over India isn't even questioned.
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* WhiteMansBurden: Col. Stone's XO explains that Stone is the way he is because attention to duty above all else is the only way "a handful of men" can rule over 300 million natives. This being a film made in Hollywood in the 1930s, the justice of Britain's rule over India isn't even questioned.questioned.
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''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' is a 1935 film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Creator/GaryCooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, and Guy Standing.
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''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' is a 1935 film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Creator/GaryCooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Creator/CAubreySmith and Guy Standing.
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* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: TropeMaker, when Mohammed Khan is threatening the officers with torture. Also a case of BeamMeUpScotty, as the actually line is "We have ways of making men talk."
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* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: TropeMaker, when Mohammed Khan is threatening the officers with torture. Also a case of BeamMeUpScotty, as the actually actual line is "We have ways of making to make men talk."
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''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' is a 1935 film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Creator/GaryCooper.
British India, aka UsefulNotes/TheRaj, on the northwest frontier, which later became UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}. The 41st Bengal Lancers are a crack regiment defending the frontier against mountain tribesmen. Lieutenant Alan [=McGregor=] (Cooper), a hot-headed but brave veteran officer, welcomes two new arrivals: Lt. Forsythe, a wisecracking DeadpanSnarker, and Lt. Stone, a newbie fresh out of the Sandhurst military academy. It just so happens that Lt. Stone is the only son of Colonel Stone, the regimental commander. The colonel's devotion to the army made him a DisappearedDad years ago; young Stone speculates that his father might not even know that his son went to Sandhurst.
British India, aka UsefulNotes/TheRaj, on the northwest frontier, which later became UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}. The 41st Bengal Lancers are a crack regiment defending the frontier against mountain tribesmen. Lieutenant Alan [=McGregor=] (Cooper), a hot-headed but brave veteran officer, welcomes two new arrivals: Lt. Forsythe, a wisecracking DeadpanSnarker, and Lt. Stone, a newbie fresh out of the Sandhurst military academy. It just so happens that Lt. Stone is the only son of Colonel Stone, the regimental commander. The colonel's devotion to the army made him a DisappearedDad years ago; young Stone speculates that his father might not even know that his son went to Sandhurst.
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''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' is a 1935 film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Creator/GaryCooper.
Creator/GaryCooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, and Guy Standing.
The setting is British India, aka UsefulNotes/TheRaj, on the northwest frontier, which later became UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}. The 41st Bengal Lancers are a crack regiment defending the frontier against mountain tribesmen. Lieutenant Alan [=McGregor=] (Cooper), a hot-headed but brave veteran officer, welcomes two new arrivals: Lt.Forsythe, Forsythe (Tone), a wisecracking DeadpanSnarker, and Lt. Stone, Stone (Cromwell), a newbie fresh out of the Sandhurst military academy. It just so happens that Lt. Stone is the only son of Colonel Stone, Col. Stone (Standing), the regimental commander. The colonel's devotion to the army made him a DisappearedDad years ago; young Stone speculates that his father might not even know that his son went to Sandhurst.
The setting is British India, aka UsefulNotes/TheRaj, on the northwest frontier, which later became UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}. The 41st Bengal Lancers are a crack regiment defending the frontier against mountain tribesmen. Lieutenant Alan [=McGregor=] (Cooper), a hot-headed but brave veteran officer, welcomes two new arrivals: Lt.
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* KilledMidSentence: The Lancers are taking enemy fire from the rocks. [=McGregor=] wants to charge. His superior officer says "I'd like to have you with me in a war, but for peacetime you're--", and then is shot off his horse. But he's NotQuiteDead, and manages to gasp out "...too...too impetuous" before he croaks.
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* KilledMidSentence: Played with. The Lancers are taking enemy fire from the rocks. [=McGregor=] wants to charge. His superior officer says "I'd like to have you with me in a war, but for peacetime you're--", and then is shot off his horse. But he's NotQuiteDead, and manages to gasp out "...too...too impetuous" before he croaks.
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* FacialDialogue: In the final scene, Colonel Stone and his son exchange a handshake and a brief look that says volumes more than they've managed to in the whole movie preceding it--namely, gratitude and SoProudOfYou.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Lt. Stone, who hasn't seen his father in years, is desperate for the old man's affection and respect. When Col. Stone proves incapable of expressing it, his son is deeply hurt.
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* AffablyEvil: Mohammad Khan, who seats his prisoners to a fancy gourmet dinner, and then politely asks what route the ammunition train is taking. When his British guests won't tell, he says "Come now gentlemen. Must I proceed to these absurd and unpleasant extremes?". Then he tortures the bejesus out of them with lit bamboo sticks.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: [=McGregor=] and Forsythe are tortured via lit bamboo sticks stuck under their fingernails.
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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The name of the film is ''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'', and Bengal was on the eastern side of the Raj (most of it became UsefulNotes/{{Bangladesh}}). But the Lancers are specifically described as being on the north'''west''' frontier, which would later become Pakistan.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Lt. Forsythe's playing of the pungi flute lures a cobra into the room, which [=McGregor=] has to shoot. A very shaky Forsythe then tries to pour himself a shot of whiskey but [=McGregor=] does it for him.
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** A professional snake charmer does this in the Lancers' camp.
** Later, and to his horrified surprise, Lt. Forsythe accidentally lures a snake into his quarters by noodling on a pungi flute.
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** Played straight with Douglas Dumbrille (Mohammad Khan).
** InUniverse Barrett dons blackface to infiltrate the enemy camp, as do [=McGregor=] and Forsythe when they attempt a rescue of Lt. Stone.
** Played straight with Douglas Dumbrille (Mohammad Khan).
** InUniverse Barrett dons blackface to infiltrate the enemy camp, as do [=McGregor=] and Forsythe when they attempt a rescue of Lt. Stone.
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* HoneyTrap: Mohammad Khan's sexy concubine, who uses her feminine charms to lure Lt. Stone out of camp, which allows the Muslims to kidnap him.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Col. Stone insults his son with a harsh dressing-down in which he says that the Indian frontier is no place for a new graduate from the academy. He's right, though: Lt. Stone's inexperience and naïveté makes it easy for Mohammad Khan to use a honey trap to lure Lt. Stone away.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Col. Stone insults his son with a harsh dressing-down in which he says that the Indian frontier is no place for a new graduate from the academy. He's right, though: Lt. Stone's inexperience and naïveté makes it easy for Mohammad Khan to use a honey trap to lure Lt. Stone away.
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* RightHandCat: The villain, Mohammad Khan, is introduced playing with kittens.
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* MarriedToTheJob: Col. Stone says "the service comes first", but his wife didn't understand that, which is why he doesn't have a wife anymore and hasn't seen his son in years.
* ShutUpKirk: After [=McGregor=] expresses outrage over Col. Stone's refusal to go rescue his son, Major Hamilton dresses him down, saying that devotion to duty above all things is necessary on the frontier and that Col. Stone can't play into Mohammad Khan's hands and expose the ammunition shipment, not even to save his son.
* StiffUpperLip: Col. Stone's main problem, in that he finds himself unable to express affection for his son. He looks wistfully at a picture of his wife and baby boy, but hides it away when Lt. Stone enters the office. After giving his son an insulting dressing-down and telling his son that he didn't send for him, Col. Stone hesitantly says "I'm very glad that--", but it's too late, as Lt. Stone has turned on his heel and left the room.
* ShutUpKirk: After [=McGregor=] expresses outrage over Col. Stone's refusal to go rescue his son, Major Hamilton dresses him down, saying that devotion to duty above all things is necessary on the frontier and that Col. Stone can't play into Mohammad Khan's hands and expose the ammunition shipment, not even to save his son.
* StiffUpperLip: Col. Stone's main problem, in that he finds himself unable to express affection for his son. He looks wistfully at a picture of his wife and baby boy, but hides it away when Lt. Stone enters the office. After giving his son an insulting dressing-down and telling his son that he didn't send for him, Col. Stone hesitantly says "I'm very glad that--", but it's too late, as Lt. Stone has turned on his heel and left the room.
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''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer'' is a 1935 film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Creator/GaryCooper.
British India, aka UsefulNotes/TheRaj, on the northwest frontier, which later became UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}. The 41st Bengal Lancers are a crack regiment defending the frontier against mountain tribesmen. Lieutenant Alan [=McGregor=] (Cooper), a hot-headed but brave veteran officer, welcomes two new arrivals: Lt. Forsythe, a wisecracking DeadpanSnarker, and Lt. Stone, a newbie fresh out of the Sandhurst military academy. It just so happens that Lt. Stone is the only son of Colonel Stone, the regimental commander. The colonel's devotion to the army made him a DisappearedDad years ago; young Stone speculates that his father might not even know that his son went to Sandhurst.
Meanwhile, army intelligence has learned that native chieftain Mohammed Khan is organizing a campaign against the British, uniting the tribes for a major attack. The regiment must prevent an ammunition shipment from falling into the hands of the enemy, but Lt. Stone's inexperience winds up jeopardizing the mission.
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Barrett, the officer who is sent into enemy territory disguised as a native, is sent back to the regimental camp as a corpse, tied upright to the saddle of his horse.
* HeroicSacrifice: Forsythe is about to make the mortally dangerous sprint to the ammunition dump when [=McGregor=] knocks him out with a punch to the face and does it himself. [=McGregor=] dies, but not before he succeeds in throwing the torch into the ammo tower and blowing everything up.
* KilledMidSentence: The Lancers are taking enemy fire from the rocks. [=McGregor=] wants to charge. His superior officer says "I'd like to have you with me in a war, but for peacetime you're--", and then is shot off his horse. But he's NotQuiteDead, and manages to gasp out "...too...too impetuous" before he croaks.
* NaiveNewcomer: Lt. Stone's arrival at army HQ allows for a little lecture, including a map, that explains where the 41st Lancers are stationed and what their job is.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: TropeMaker, when Mohammed Khan is threatening the officers with torture. Also a case of BeamMeUpScotty, as the actually line is "We have ways of making men talk."
* WhiteMansBurden: Col. Stone's XO explains that Stone is the way he is because attention to duty above all else is the only way "a handful of men" can rule over 300 million natives. This being a film made in Hollywood in the 1930s, the justice of Britain's rule over India isn't even questioned.
British India, aka UsefulNotes/TheRaj, on the northwest frontier, which later became UsefulNotes/{{Pakistan}}. The 41st Bengal Lancers are a crack regiment defending the frontier against mountain tribesmen. Lieutenant Alan [=McGregor=] (Cooper), a hot-headed but brave veteran officer, welcomes two new arrivals: Lt. Forsythe, a wisecracking DeadpanSnarker, and Lt. Stone, a newbie fresh out of the Sandhurst military academy. It just so happens that Lt. Stone is the only son of Colonel Stone, the regimental commander. The colonel's devotion to the army made him a DisappearedDad years ago; young Stone speculates that his father might not even know that his son went to Sandhurst.
Meanwhile, army intelligence has learned that native chieftain Mohammed Khan is organizing a campaign against the British, uniting the tribes for a major attack. The regiment must prevent an ammunition shipment from falling into the hands of the enemy, but Lt. Stone's inexperience winds up jeopardizing the mission.
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Barrett, the officer who is sent into enemy territory disguised as a native, is sent back to the regimental camp as a corpse, tied upright to the saddle of his horse.
* HeroicSacrifice: Forsythe is about to make the mortally dangerous sprint to the ammunition dump when [=McGregor=] knocks him out with a punch to the face and does it himself. [=McGregor=] dies, but not before he succeeds in throwing the torch into the ammo tower and blowing everything up.
* KilledMidSentence: The Lancers are taking enemy fire from the rocks. [=McGregor=] wants to charge. His superior officer says "I'd like to have you with me in a war, but for peacetime you're--", and then is shot off his horse. But he's NotQuiteDead, and manages to gasp out "...too...too impetuous" before he croaks.
* NaiveNewcomer: Lt. Stone's arrival at army HQ allows for a little lecture, including a map, that explains where the 41st Lancers are stationed and what their job is.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: TropeMaker, when Mohammed Khan is threatening the officers with torture. Also a case of BeamMeUpScotty, as the actually line is "We have ways of making men talk."
* WhiteMansBurden: Col. Stone's XO explains that Stone is the way he is because attention to duty above all else is the only way "a handful of men" can rule over 300 million natives. This being a film made in Hollywood in the 1930s, the justice of Britain's rule over India isn't even questioned.
