| HMS Exeter | 23 Jul 2019 2:25 a.m. PST |
About 400 years ago, when I was a little shaver, local TV was just 3 channels. Every Sunday, channel 2 ran movies. Picture for a Sunday morning and Picture for a Sunday afternoon. Some were awful. Some were good. I remember a scene from a movie, but can't remember the movie. Why this scene stuck with me, I don't know. The movie was one of those 19th century "European troops in some colonial" context. Our protagonist, a young officer or senior non-com, was tasked with escorting a woman from A to B. Along the way they are menaced by a sandstorm. Our hero observes this is no ordinary sandstorm, but he characterises it as a "hand of god," or some such. They ride hard for a ruined stone temple for shelter, and just make it. The male lead was a sort of Victor Mature or Tyrone Power type. My Google-fu has failed me. This question bubbles up in my memory from time to time and is now an itch I cannot scratch. Anybody remember this one? Tks |
| bsrlee | 23 Jul 2019 5:05 a.m. PST |
I can remember the scene, but I can't remember the title. |
 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 23 Jul 2019 5:05 a.m. PST |
Was there a train involved? |
| nnascati | 23 Jul 2019 5:18 a.m. PST |
I think that might have been "King of the Khyber Rifles". It did star Tyrone Power. |
| HMS Exeter | 23 Jul 2019 5:25 a.m. PST |
No train that I recalled. Certainly none involved in the scene. KotKR has always been a possible candidate, but I've never been able to confirm the particular scene. It just doesn't feel right. I may have to Amazon it to definitively rule it in or out. Maybe the storm was "the hammer of god." I'm not sure. |
| nnascati | 23 Jul 2019 5:35 a.m. PST |
KotKR it is indeed, I just forwarded through it on youtube. The scene starts about 33 minutes in. |
| HMS Exeter | 23 Jul 2019 6:06 a.m. PST |
Aaaaand we have a winner! Tks. Now all I have to do is remember where I left my keys. |
| nnascati | 23 Jul 2019 6:10 a.m. PST |
I haven't seen it for ages. I may have just found my treadmill viewing for today. |
| Hlaven | 23 Jul 2019 8:22 a.m. PST |
I remember the movie. At one point the native troops refused to use their guns because biting the cartridges was sacraligious because of cow or pig grease. They all used their knives instead. I think, |
 The Virtual Armchair General  | 23 Jul 2019 12:12 p.m. PST |
Yes, Hlaven! They throw down their new Enfields and Ty Power is about to give up the attack on the villain's camp, but the Havildar Major draws his Khyber knife and says, "But with these, we will follow you anywhere!" Fun old film with a rather gruesome fancified "execution" of captured Brits by the evil Khan early on. Always made me cringe as a kid…. TVAG |
| D A THB | 23 Jul 2019 5:29 p.m. PST |
Sounds like a good movie so I added it to my watch later list. |
