Paramount had planned to produce the film in 1931 and sent cinematographers Ernest B. Schoedsack and Rex Wimpy to India to film location shots such as a tiger hunt. However, much of the film stock deteriorated in boiling heat, so when the film was eventually made in 1934, much of the production took place in the hills surrounding Los Angeles.
A news item in "Daily Variety" on April 24, 1935, states that the film had been banned by Chinese censors because it "depicts the British downtrodding of Oriental races." According to a "Hollywood Reporter" news item, despite the Chinese censors' fear that the film would have a negative effect on Muslims, it was passed for exhibition in late January 1936.
The film was criticized for showing soldiers not taking cover when under fire.
The novel on which this film was based was set in 1905 during the Edwardian era.
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By what name was The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) officially released in India in English?
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