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6.8/10   216 votes
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Director:
Writers:
A.E.W. Mason (by)
Lajos Biró (adaptation)
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Release Date:
29 September 1938 (USA) more
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Tagline:
A CAST OF 3000
Plot:
Set in the India of the British Raj. All the Indians are portrayed as untrustworthy, plotting to overthrow their British masters... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
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(2 articles)
Lists of Doom Xii: Flatline
 (From Fangoria. 6 May 2009, 4:59 PM, PDT)

Goldberg, Jones, Schreiber & More Headline Un Concert 3/25
 (From BroadwayWorld.com. 19 March 2009, 11:49 AM, PDT)

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Forget today's political correctness @ enjoy a spiffin yarn more (11 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Drums (USA)
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Runtime:
104 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Wide Range Noiseless Recording)
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Continuity: The movie contains two successive takes with the same line being said twice over. This scene occurs when Prince Azim goes to the British to warn of the ambush. more
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Referenced in Boxcar Bertha (1972) more

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15 out of 18 people found the following review useful.
Forget today's political correctness @ enjoy a spiffin yarn, 30 March 2004
Author: alexander_caughey from athens, greece

Great morale booster for the British people, with another World War looming. Shows the bonding between British and Indians that contributed to the long sojourn of the British in India. Definitely a boy's film with all the majesty that the Empire films of the thirties could muster for audiences suffering from economic depression and worries over the rise of fascism and its onward march. Roger Livesey's character brings to life the type of relationship that so many British civilians and civil servants enjoyed with Indians, so sadly ignored/forgotten in the interest of history revision and political correctness.

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