The Bengal Lancers!

The Bengal Lancers! is a 1984 British film. It was abandoned during filming due to insufficient finance.
Cast
*Michael York as Captain Walberton
*Emma Burdon-Sutton as Ennis Moore
*Miles O'Keefe as Flynn
*Christopher Lee as Sir James Hunter
*Trevor Howard as Uncle George
*Ronald Lacey as Monsieur Yves
*Mahmud Sipra as Prince Khalil
Production
In 1980 it was reported that the Rank Film Organisation were going to finance to movie but pulled out. Part of the finance came from businessman Mahmud Sipra who had invested in The Jigsaw Man and was later arrested for fraud.
Michael York said he was cast in the film because he was spending Christmas in India, went to visit director Stephen Weeks, who was an old friend, just as Week's lead actor had become unavailable. York got the job. Miles O'Keefe had previously appeared in Sword of the Valiant directed by Weeks.
Filming began in Jodphur, India. Rushes were processed in London at a Technicolor laboratory. According to Weeks, the first few weeks proceeded smoothly but then he received a report that the rushes from the film were "all out of focus and unusable".
In a 2014 interview Weeks again said "an enormous insurance fraud" was committed during the making of the film and "it took me until 1995 to recover from Technicolor trying to steal the film that was shot, bankrupt my company, steal my house - all to cover up the fact that the Technical Director of the lab had been bribed to sent false rushes reports to us in India!"

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