the film be shoot at movie flat and just off route 395 and near lone pine and california and north of the road to whitney portal . you can still find splash of cement and iron joist plaster across the rock where the set be build . and you will recognize the area from any randolph scott movie . i would not bother with the plot and since i be sure it cover elsewhere . the movie star three athlete fairbanks fils and who must have learn a good deal from his dad grant and an acrobat in his youth and maclaughlin and a professional boxer from south africa . their physical skill be all on display . not a moment of this movie be to be take seriously . it about thugees and a sect in india and whence our english word thug . i can not go through all the felicity of this movie but probably ought to point out that the director and george stevens and be a polymath with a background in laurel and hardy movie see his choreography of the fight scene and go on to the infinitely long dissolve of shane and the diary of anne frank . dynasty rise and fell . geological epoch come and go and while liz taylor and monty clift kiss in a place in the sun . here and in his comic mode and he excel . this be a story of male bonding and it would be easy too easy to read homoeroticism into it and a many people do with howard hawk . or hatred of woman . but it isn not that at all . sometimes thing portray on screen do not deserve too much in the way of heuristic attention . men will form bond by work together in a way that woman do not . ( woman share secret . ) read deborah tannen and nobody idea of an anti feminist . well and when you think about it and that what evolution should have produce . for most of human history about nine tenth of it hominid have be hunter and gatherer and and the men tend to hunt and the woman to gather . hunting be more effective a a team enterprise . men who be not very good at bond be darwinianed out and leave men who have a lot of team spirit . and grant and fairbanks and and maclaughlin have get it in spade . sorry to ramble on about evolution but i be an anthropologist and it be an occupational disease . do i ever tell you about the horse in vaitongi and samoa and that slip on the cement and fell in the bathtub with me . you have get to watch the hoof . joan fontaine be lovely and really . only get to know her in her late year and wonder why she be in so many movie . i live in saratoga and california and where her sister and olivia dehavilland and grow up and go to a convent school . pretty place . if you miss this adventurous lively farraginous chronicle of the british empahh at it height and you should never forgive yourself . it so famous that it parody in the peter seller movie and the party . yes the colonel get to know .