The Lives of A Bengal Lancer - Production

Production

Paramount had planned to produce the film in 1931 and sent Ernest B. Schoedsack and Rex Wimpy to India to film location shots such as a tiger hunt however much of the film stock deteriorated. When the movie was eventually made, much of the production took place in the hills surrounding Los Angeles. Paiute Native Americans were used as extras.

Among the filming locations were Lone Pine, Calif., Buffalo Flats in Malibu, Calif., the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, Calif., and the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif. For the climactic half-hour battle sequence at the end of the movie, an elaborate set was built in the Iverson Gorge, part of the Iverson Movie Ranch, to depict Mogala, the mountain stronghold of Mohammed Khan.

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