Academy Awards, USA 1936
| Won Oscar | Best Assistant Director Clem Beauchamp |
| Best Assistant Director Paul Wing | |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture |
| Best Director Henry Hathaway | |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Achmed Abdullah John L. Balderston Grover Jones William Slavens McNutt Waldemar Young | |
| Best Art Direction Hans Dreier Roland Anderson | |
| Best Sound, Recording Franklin Hansen (sound director) | |
| Best Film Editing Ellsworth Hoagland |
Paramount Pictures
Directed by Henry Hathaway
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Universal)
In British ruled India, Gary Cooper is in charge of two new arrivals, one of whom is the son of the unit's commander. Cooper had arranged for the boy to be sent as a favor, but the commander receives him coldly and refuses to treat him with anything resembling favoritism. Feeling rejected, the boy turns to alcohol, and they falls for a local slave girl sent to kidnap him for information. Although is father doesn't send help, Cooper feels responsible and heads out with the other recruit in the middle of the night. They end up getting captured as well, sent to prison and tortured for information. While they manage to keep quiet, the boy doesn't, leading to a final battle between the natives, who have stolen ammunition, and the British military company. Ambitious but ultimately flat adaptation of an autobiography, with Cooper miscast and California locations a poor, and obvious, substitute for India.
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