THE BLACK WATCH DVD

Victor McLaglen ... Capt. Donald Gordon King
Myrna Loy ... Yasmani
David Rollins ... Lt. Malcolm King
Lumsden Hare ... Colonel of the Black Watch
Roy D'Arcy ... Rewa Ghunga
Mitchell Lewis ... Mohammed Khan
Cyril Chadwick ... Maj. Twynes
Claude King ... General in India
Francis Ford ... Maj. MacGregor
Walter Long ... Harrim Bey

and John Wayne appears briefly in an unbilled role.

In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned to quell a native uprising in the Northern mountains. Unfortunately, soon after arriving, he gets drunk and seemingly kills another officer during a barroom fight. He escapes capture and disappears into the crowd. Now wanted as a renegade, he involves himself with a beautiful but sadistic native princess, a direct descendant of Alexander the Great. He cozies up to her and learns that she is planning to send her troops to attack the British through Khyber pass. Though she correctly suspects that the fugitive soldier is really a spy, she cannot help but fall in love with him, thereby sparing him the usual torture and castration she forces upon other captured British soldiers. Unfortunately her love causes her downfall in the exciting conclusion.