Clive of India

• Director: Richard Boleslawski
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Adventure
• Movie Type: Biopic, Docudrama
• Main Cast: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith
• Release Year: 1935
• Country: US
• Run Time: 90 minutes

Plot

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

Cast

• Ronald Colman - Robert Clive
• Loretta Young - Margaret Maskelyne Clive
• Colin Clive - Lt. Johnstone
• Francis Lister - Edmund Maskelyne
• C. Aubrey Smith - Prime Minister

Cesar Romero - Mir Jaffar; Montagu Love - Governor Pigot; Lumsden Hare - Sgt. Clark; Ferdinand Munier - Adm. Watson; Gilbert Emery - Sullivan; Leo G. Carroll - Manning; Etienne Girardot - Warburton; Robert Greig - Pemberton; Ian Wolfe - Kent; Herbert Bunston - 1st Director; Mischa Auer - Suraj Ud Dowlah; Ferdinand Gottschalk - Old Member; Wyndham Standing - Col. Townsend; Doris Lloyd - Mrs. Nixon; Edward Cooper - Clive's Butler; Pat Somerset - Lt. Walsh; Leonard Mudie - Gen. Burgoyne; Don Ameche - Prisoner at Black Hole of Calcutta; Calcutta; John Carradine - Drunken-Faced Clerk; Phyllis Clare - Miss Smythe; Neville Clarke - Vincent; Philip Dare - Capt. George; Vernon P. Downing - Stringer; Douglas Gerrard - Lt. Walsh; Olaf Hytten - Parson at Hasting; Emmett C. King - Merchant; Connie Leon - Ayah; Eily Malyon - Mrs. Clifford; Vesey O'Davoren - 2nd Surveyor; Des Roberts - 3rd Director; Ann Shaw - Lady Lindley; Joseph R. Tozer - Sir Frith; Charles E. Evans - Surveyor; Peter Shaw - Miller; Keith Hitchcock - 2nd Director

Credit

Omar Kiam - Costume Designer, Richard Boleslawski - Director, Barbara McLean - Editor, Alfred Newman - Composer (Music Score), J. Peverell Marley - Cinematographer, William Goetz - Producer, Raymond Griffith - Producer, W.P. Lipscomb - Screenwriter, R.J. Minney - Screenwriter, W.P. Lipscomb - Play Author, R.J. Minney - Play Author

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