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Show ful girl and I: kldiv;.;:'l by Mo-! hai.ui.ed Pll.a.'l, a hot. tile leader, who ho;,es. that hi; futh'ir will pursu; him 8i.fl tlm.i load the Lancers t j. ' di..a..ier. I j C-Ssis-r and Tone follow and are cau:;ht when they attempt to free Cromwell. Under torture, Cromwell d;:, clows the whereabouts of a tre-i mendous cargo of ammunition. Mo. hammed Khan captures the ammu-! I nition, brings it back to the fortress and prepares to lead a revolution ' against the British. j The Bengal Lancers ride on the! fortress, prepared to face destruc-1 tion, if it will stem the revolution j until reinforcements can arrive. The needless sacrifice is prevented by I Cooper, who, by a daring maneuver, single-handedly destroys the fortress1 effects the release of the prisoners, ! and saves the Bengal Lancers. Directed by Henry Hathaway, i "Tire Lives of a Bengal Lancer" has. had more than four thousand play- I ers in its cast during the four years of production Monte Blue, Douglas Dumbrille, Kathleen Burke, C. Aubrey Au-brey Smith, Colin Tapley and Akim i Tamiroff appear in the supporting j cast. Bengal Lancer Film Takes 4 Years to Make Perhaps the most ambitisus and cosily spectacle that Hollywood has ever attempted, Panunount's "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" has at last been screened and comes to the Caira-o Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, March 24, 25 and 2G, after four years of unremitting effort in Its pnxluetion. Featuring Clary Coox:r, Pranchot Tone, Richard Cromwell and Sir Guy Standing in the principal roles, "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" is a stirring, stir-ring, colon'ul and action-crammed story of the exploits and adventures of England's Colonial soldiers in India. The Ktory of "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" Is that the extraordinary extraor-dinary bravery, discipline and skill that has enabled a mere handful of English officers to hold sway over the teaming millions of India. Cooper Coop-er is a captain of the 41st Bengal Lancers, commanded by Sir Guy Standing, when Sir Guy's son, played play-ed by Richard rromwcll, arrives as a raw recruit. Cooper and Tone, also an officer of the regiment, take over the training train-ing of the young lad, but, on a visit to an adjoining province, Cromwell Crom-well becomes involved with a beauti- |