English language, can’t remember if it’s color or b&w.
There was a fort in India (during British Raj), and anticipating an attack everyone holed up in the infirmary. It was pretty gloomy because they weren’t expecting to survive the coming attack.
Also, in another scene possibly from the same movie, a detachment arrived at the fort and found that everyone was either missing or had been killed and I think there were bodies laying all over the parade ground and on the walls with no one left alive. Possibly this detachment was the men in the infirmary later. I just can’t remember.
Not sure if the same movie, but I think maybe at one point in an attempt to get civilians out they tried to get everyone to a nearby river to get on some boats.
I think I saw this on TCM during one of those theme days where they show 4 or 5 movies on the same subject, and there were a bunch of movies in a row about British India. So I might be confusing multiple movies, but I can’t find any movie with any of those 3 scenes and I know they were all British Raj subject movies.
I know it is NOT:
Soldiers Three
Beau Geste (some similar scenes but not British or India)
Gunga Din
The Man Who Would Be King
King of the Khyber Rifles
The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer
North West Frontier
Bhowani Junction
I have watched all those movies again and I know it isn’t any of those.
Thanks in advance.
This is really a reach, because it’s not even a movie. In the old “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” tv show, there was an episode that had flashbacks similar to what you’re describing. The scenes would have been pretty short, as befits a tv episode, but I remember lots of dead people strewn about and something about a canal being used for an escape. The program is somewhat different from the Doyle story. The title is “The Crooked Man.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0506448/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6
The Brigand of Kandahar?
Ok, thanks for the replies, but I finally figured out the movie.
It’s the 1936 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade with Errol Flynn.
I was mostly right about the movie – fort in India, everyone holed up (barracks, not infirmary although there was a scene with someone operating on wounded), everyone found dead when a force arrived, bodies everywhere. Also there was an attempt to get civilians out by boat at a nearby river.
I think the reason I wasn’t able to figure it out is because the first 3/4 of the movie has nothing to do with the Charge…it’s all set in India before that takes place. Only the last 30 minutes or so is the characters transferred to the Crimea to battle the Russians.
Thanks everyone!
Thanks for updating us TVX!