Clive of India (1935)
- Starring:
- Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, (more)
- Director(s):
- Richard Boleslawski
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Ronald Colman plays Robert Clive, a true-life 18th century Britisher who works up the ranks to become leader of Britain's military forces in India. Though produced on a superficially lavish scale, the film inexpensively sidesteps several of Clive's more famous battles with Indian insurrectionists, relegating them to offscreen events described by subtitles. The notorious Sepoy Mutiny "Black Hole of Calcutta" incident, hardly a costly event to recreate, is faithfully presented. In real life, Clive was ruined by a trial in the House of Commons, after which he suffered a nervous breakdown and committed suicide. The film tactfully closes on the trial and Clive's reunion with his faithful wife (Loretta Young). Typically jingoistic in its "White Man's Burden" approach to East Indian affairs, Clive of India is best viewed in context of the time it was filmed (1935), when the sun still hadn't set on the British Empire. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Ronald Colman - Robert Clive
- Colin Clive - Lt. Johnstone
- C. Aubrey Smith - Prime Minister
- Montagu Love - Governor Pigot
- Ferdinand Munier - Adm. Watson
- Leo G. Carroll - Manning
- Robert Greig - Pemberton
- Herbert Bunston - 1st Director
- Ferdinand Gottschalk - Old Member
- Doris Lloyd - Mrs. Nixon
- Pat Somerset - Lt. Walsh
- Don Ameche - Prisoner at Black Hole of Calcutta
- Charles E. Evans - Surveyor
- Ann Shaw - Lady Lindley
- Vesey O'Davoren - 2nd Surveyor
- Connie Leon - Ayah
- Olaf Hytten - Parson at Hasting
- Philip Dare - Capt. George
- Vernon P. Downing - Stringer
- Phyllis Clare - Miss Smythe
- John Carradine - Drunken-Faced Clerk
- Loretta Young - Margaret Maskelyne Clive
- Francis Lister - Edmund Maskelyne
- Cesar Romero - Mir Jaffar
- Lumsden Hare - Sgt. Clark
- Gilbert Emery - Sullivan
- Etienne Girardot - Warburton
- Ian Wolfe - Kent
- Mischa Auer - Suraj Ud Dowlah
- Wyndham Standing - Col. Townsend
- Edward Cooper - Clive's Butler
- Leonard Mudie - Gen. Burgoyne
- Keith Hitchcock - 2nd Director
- Joseph R. Tozer - Sir Frith
- Des Roberts - 3rd Director
- Eily Malyon - Mrs. Clifford
- Emmett C. King - Merchant
- Peter Shaw - Miller
- Douglas Gerrard - Lt. Walsh
- Neville Clarke - Vincent
- Calcutta
- Director(s):
- Richard Boleslawski
- Writer(s):
- W.P. Lipscomb, R.J. Minney
- Producer(s):
- William Goetz, Raymond Griffith
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