Colonial ambition, forbidden love, and one clerk who conned an empire into existence.
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Acting
Ronald Colman's mustache does more work than the script.
Costume
British officers dressed like they're auditioning for 'Nutcracker'.
Production
Epic scale on a budget—elephants, battles, questionable brownface.
Director
Richard Boleslawski
Ronald Colman
Robert Clive
Loretta Young
Margaret Maskelyne
Colin Clive
Capt. Johnstone
Francis Lister
Edmund Maskelyne
C. Aubrey Smith
Prime Minister
Cesar Romero
Mir Jaffar
Montagu Love
Governor Pigot
Lumsden Hare
Sergeant Clark
Ferdinand Munier
Admiral Watson
Gilbert Emery
Mr. Sullivan
Leo G. Carroll
Mr. Manning
Etienne Girardot
Mr. Warburton
Robert Greig
Mr. Pemberton
Mischa Auer
Suraj Ud Dowlah
Ferdinand Gottschalk
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