अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंIn the 1700s Clive, clerk of the East India Company, transfers and become a soldier. His leadership and gift for manipulation strengthen England's hold over India but his wealth is often thr... सभी पढ़ेंIn the 1700s Clive, clerk of the East India Company, transfers and become a soldier. His leadership and gift for manipulation strengthen England's hold over India but his wealth is often threatened by the enemies he makes along the way.In the 1700s Clive, clerk of the East India Company, transfers and become a soldier. His leadership and gift for manipulation strengthen England's hold over India but his wealth is often threatened by the enemies he makes along the way.
- पुरस्कार
- कुल 2 जीत
- Gov. Pigot
- (as Montague Love)
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This is a jingoist biopic , partially based on historical events , set In the mid-1700's when the East India Company had power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government . It is a patriotic biographic movie about Colonel Robert Clive , but being more a romantic melodrama than a biopic or a historical film . It was panned by reviewers for giving an apology , being an ¨ode¨ to colonialism and British Imperialism . Nice acting by Ronald Colman as a tough man who at the beginning frustrated by his lack of advancement in his life , he then transfers to the military arm of the company, where he excels .His couple is one of the best stars of 20th Century Fox Film, the beautiful Loretta Young . Support cast is frankly excellent , plenty of notorious secondaries as C. Aubrey Smith as Prime Minister , Colin Clive , Francis Lister ,Cesar Romero , Montagu Love and Leo G. Carroll . And uncredited , John Carradine and Don Ameche as Prisoner .
Rousing and evocative musical score by the classy composer Alfred Newman . Atmospheric and adequate cinematography in black and white by J. Peverell Marley . Impressive and breathtaking production design by Richard Day . The motion picture lavishly produced by Daryl F Zanuck , was professionally made by Director Richard Boleslawski . Richard was a prestigious filmmaker by making several important films at major studios like MGM and Fox before his premature death in January 1937. Among his most important directing assignments were Rasputin and the Empress (1932) (the only film in which John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore appeared together), Men in White (1934) (Clark Gable and Myrna Loy), The painted veil (1934) (Greta Garbo), Les Misérables (1935) (Fredric March and Charles Laughton) and Theodora Goes Wild (1936) (with Irene Dunne) and a wide range of genres. He even directed a musical, Metropolitan (1935) (Lawrence Tibbett) and a western, 3 Godfathers (1936) (Chester Morris). His best film was his penultimate one , Garden of Alah (1936) (with Marlene Dietrich), the exteriors of which were shot in the burning heat of the southwestern American desert , until his early death at 48 .
Something very much like that happens to Robert Clive as played by Ronald Colman here. Convinced he has a destiny like Lawrence did, Clive leaves the British East India company clerk job and joins the army where like Ulysses S. Grant he has a talent for war.
War is what he makes and by the end of his career the French who also had imperial ambitions were chased out of India and it was British for almost 200 years. Clive wanted India to be a crown colony, but it was run by the British East India Company who not under any law and away from the monarchy's writ were quite a corrupt outfit. The Indians never got over it.
Colman brings out the fanaticism in Clive. Usually the self assured polished English gentlemen, Colman adds on that with Clive being the self assured man of destiny, but also terribly worried that destiny will pass him by. After the story of this film is concluded, Clive died by his own hand in 1774 pretty much forgotten by the British public who worshipped him at one time.
This film has not been available for years. I'm glad I finally got to see it.
"Clive of India", clearly, is a very sterile and dry film. Despite starring the wonderful Ronald Colman (one of my favorites), the picture comes off as episodic and amazingly dull. This is a shame, as the real life Sir Clive was an amazing man and as an American I am glad he fought in India and not North America--otherwise, we might still be a British colony! He was talented and yet also very screwed up (his suicide comes to mind) and how all this managed to be so dull is beyond me. I think it's because so much energy is spent on the sets and making it all look good that little attention was given to the script--the characters just seemed wooden and lifeless.
Overall, you can watch it if you like, but I suggest you'd get more out of Wikipedia on this one!
Ronald Colman is always fun to watch. Loretta Young is beautiful, even if her American accent gets in the way of her performance occasionally. Cesar Romero, Colin Clive & Sir C. Aubrey Smith all have small rolls.
The historical Clive died an opium addict and a suicide at the age of only 49. CLIVE OF INDIA shows us a little of his brilliance and tragedy.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाCo-star Colin Clive was in fact a real-life descendent of Clive of India.
- गूफ़The story begins in 1748, and Robert Clive (Ronald Colman) falls in love with Margaret Maskelyne, when he sees a locket with her photograph, carried by her brother. But such a photograph would not have been possible until at least 100 years later, when the first photographs, known as daguerreotypes, were first introduced.
- भाव
Margaret Maskelyne: You can't go! I've given my life for India! It's taken one of my children! He's dead... dead, and for what?
Robert Clive: Meg - you musntn't excite yourself. Remember your state.
Margaret Maskelyne: What does that matter? What are children to you? You talk of love and one breath of the word 'India' and away it goes!
Robert Clive: Meg, I must keep faith!
- कनेक्शनFeatured in Biography: Cesar Romero: In a Class by Himself (2000)
- साउंडट्रैकDrink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
(uncredited)
Music by R. Melish (1780 ?)
Played often in the score as a love theme
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