The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds. Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds. Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
Loosely based on the John Masters novel, "The Deceivers", in turn based on William Sleeman`s massive task to destroy the Thugee strangling sect in the early 19th century. The cast are all good especially Hammer regulars George Martell and Marne Maitland in native roles, while Guy Rolfe, often cast as a villain in Fifties costume pictures, here plays the hero. For many critics the most outstanding role is busty Marie Devereaux as the sadistic and silent busty acolyte. She is certainly memorable.
Una grata sorpresa ver esta vieja película del género de aventuras en tan buenas condiciones. He sido siempre un amante de tales producciones, como la recreada de los estranguladores de Bombay. Por la trama que se observa y el rol de sus protagonistas en haber legado en estos filmes en cuestión. Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
That wife character was amazing. The actress made me believe she was a strong, loyal, loving and trusting wife. I find it incredibly conservative and wonderful.
In my neighbourhood there is a statue of Kali in a religious shop near the Ganesh shrine. I think either this weekend or next week ought to be a big celebration at the Hindu temple in another part of town, which celebrates both Kali and Ganesh. One of the most extraordinary festivals I've ever attended. The streets are filled with colourful and lavish shrines made by the people, and at night there is a parade of sacred objects, and flaming coconuts.
@@sunchildgaia. How apt :-) I’m absolutely fascinated by the Hindi story. Ravina abducting Sita. Hanuman and the bridge. Krishna the lover. Such wonderful human stories. But in the west understanding of the Hindu pantheon is pretty low. I’m not pretending to know much myself. But if I find myself in an unlikely situation where I’m trying to explain how the religion works I would be met with confusion when I said Brahma is the first God and Vishnu and Sheva were the trinity. As to Kali/Parvati a mother enraged by the slaughter of her children. Damn right she’s scary. I’ve read some of the Bhagavad Gita. I will I promise finish it but as I said above it’s such a human story that they have to of been real people. Not the trinity though:-) If you care to give me your opinion on that I’d be interested. I wasn’t attempting to explain Hinduism or pretend that I have any depth of knowledge but avatars are as numerous as begats in the Bible.
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds. Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
1. The first half of this movie reminds me of my experiences in the US Army in Vietnam. 2. This movie is a not-bad recreation of Raj India on various sound stages and sand quarries in England. 3. Except for the kookaburra calling during the tiger hunt scene. 4. When I was a kid in Okinawa I saw several fights between a pet mongoose and a habu, the local dangerous snake. The mongoose always won fairly. It was just like this.
@@anandcp1 No sir. I've just read a lot of Kipling and history books. I admire the way India has managed to preserve its democracy through so many troubles. It give me hope for my own USA. I am a fan of Indian culture, but not Bollywood so much (although I've seen a few charming movies). I would love to go to India, stay a few years, and see and hear the country in real life.
@@nobodyexpectssi4654 Estoy de acuerdo con usted. He leido las cuentas de Kipling muchas veces durante mi vida. Yo se bien que Kipling fue mas o menos un propagandista por el imperio Britanico, pero el fue un hombre de su propio tiempo, y tambien un artista, no un scientifica. Pardon, por favor, por mi Espanol imperfecto.
@@Axgoodofdunemaul "I admire the way India has managed to preserve its democracy through so many troubles." The Hinduist regime is anything but "democratic". Ask the Kashmiris. The same goes for another fake "democracy", the U$A, supporting genocide. The brainwashed herd's belief is funny. 😂"Democracy" is a kind of pagan faith in something never seen.
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds. Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
Amazing how gods and goddesses are use by humans to carryout out their own evil deeds. I am getting myself a mongoose as it was the hero in this movie.
The form of demonic possession and self belief is powerful aphrodisiac to action. Whilst the tongue to hold back the demons is in exorcism most valid. If you have a demon you know it gains power on the suffering and misfortune of others, it then can spawn it's seed automating it's preservation and action. Such monsters exist, whilst they would be known not by faces, but by actions and behaviours. If we have the same form as the debut of this movie we have the continual reproduction of a demon, in its own monarchy that propagated itself, and so it's behaviour. The blood from harming it allowed it to reproduce and so it was feeding in the blood to gather strength. In which case the idea was to prevent the blood of the demon from getting out of the body so it's not being fed. However the demon would then lose patience. It became nasty rather than appeased. Like an angry junkie. The anger it used to torture people caused further damage and subsequently it gained blood by its action, like a heroin addict gains heroin by theft a d abuse In demon there is little that can be done when the demon has possessed the body for the body serves the demon, the body of man serves the demon. A bit like hiv, where the white blood cells are overcome and no longer can the body recognise or defeat the infections. The demon has its own transcriptase and reproduced it's behaviour over time. Yet the cells serve the demon. A human body possessed of the devil has its roots in our media understanding of how we see it, and, a spiritual body or a church body possessed by a demon is the same. Only if the whole body is demonic how do we survive?
This was on the classic Shock Theater during the 60's. I recall being very disturbed of the why and how the men were blinded and and the woman derisively throwing scraps of food as they were imprisoned in cages. PERHAPS watching and understanding this movie as an adult will be a way to finally be released from that emotional bondage.
Interesting initiation ceremony at beginning now those Indian students are all applying for student visas to get to UK USA and Canada Australia and Europe
An amazing book, The Stranglers by George Bruce a true story of British bravery of William Sleeman who stopped and rooted out them. Aloha from Hawai'i.
Please share the links if you still have them, will love to read them. I like real fact based movies. If you were saying that Thugees were real then I already know that, that is a historical fact.
I remember seeing goats having their throats slit and their blood being smeared on the devotees of Kali in Calcutta, Kalighat I think. Unlike many Europeans I didn't go to India for enlightenment or transcendental experiences so wasn't dissapointed, just visiting very old relatives who'd stayed on after independence and property my family once owned there near Hoggs Market. A land of thieves,cheats and liars but not without considerable charm.
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds. Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
Although this is not directly related to Kali- the goddess of death and renewal, I am reminded of J Robert Oppenheimer's quote of Krishna "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"...
For all europeans and Americans--- kali is our god, she is a warrior who faught against evil..but some people do and done many evils with her name , but our kali is a mother just like mother Mery..she is kind to her children but become ruthless against the evils who who want to harm her children....we hindus have kalipuja festival on the same days of diwali , festivals of hindus related with kali puja....we have another religious festival on the night of kali puja known as bhoot chaturdashi..which is a xerox copy of your halloween....bhoot mean ghost..the night of the ghosts....nowdays india is not like the british period...india is a civilized country, with a strong millitary power ..just after usa and russia and neck to neck with china..by the blessings of Mother Kaali....
A very distorted depiction of a revered Hindu Godess , usual from Cold War era Western film makers. Much is based on Captain Medows Taylor's book Confessions of a Thug
@@Alv11269. Even that is a misconception. The cult existed but much of the general banditry was because the company had created a sort of peace and thousands of unemployed solders had no wars to fight.
@@Alv11269 It is interesting that across the countries and religions quite often the worst human beings claim that they are chosen by one God or another! Old habits I guess!
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds. Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
@@Michael-gk1nq Not like this one, with naked hanging bosoms and a monstrous face. There are far better depictions but people like you from the West know nothing yet show our Gods in a negative light. Try doing the same for your Jesus for a change. Also, it may be an UK movie and not Hollywood, but the thinking is the same, that India is an exotic wild country with monstrous Gods. So educate urself on other's beliefs before making movies on them and commenting.
@@Michael-gk1nqWhere do they depict like that in India, we have temples which are centuries old of various avatars of Kali still I haven't seen statues like that.
The very last line was very prophetic: "This is only the beginning." **Remember that when the violence starts up again and the trouble-makers claim that THEY are the innocent victims and that they deserve every consideration, every priority, and every last Welfare dollar we can give them. And then also remember the many people who will run from it all rather than face Truth and Reality. **"COMING SOON TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU." Perhaps when you least suspect it.
Huh, Guy Rolfe, the actor playing the male lead was unfamiliar to me but I see he played King John in "Ivanhoe". Ivanhoe was made 7 years earlier but thanks to makeup, he looked much older there than here.
The original book Confessions of a Thug, author Philip Taylor published 1839 was a smash hit in Victorian Britain. Imagine righteous Victorians finding the very thing they believed they were destined to save simple foreigners from.
'Confession of a Thug' (1839) by Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor. Mark Twain considered a novel. 'The Deceivers' (1955) by John Masters was made into a film of the same name by Ismail Merchant (1988). 'The sacred slaughterers' (2005) by Mike Dash is the most recent historical account Sleeman and his special detachment of Indian police really did eliminate the cult as described ~1823-5.
First revolvers made in 1560 in Germany. East India officers were private individuals in the employ of the company. So they would equip themselves but that looks like a colt :-)
The events of the movie were in 1849. Elisha Collier made a revolving flintlock and by 1835 had upgraded it. Colt traveled to England and got patents on his gun in 1835 and returned to the US to secure his patent in 1836. He manufactured the Paterson Colt at his factory in Paterson. It had no trigger guard and the trigger popped out when it was cocked. In 1847 he got a contract from the Texas Rangers. That was the Walker Colt made to the specs of Captain Walker of the Texas Rangers. It was designed to be able to kill a horse and was 4½ lbs. The Colt 1851 model was purchased by the Royal Navy and the British Army in 1855 with orders in the thousands.
@@dhm7815 the events of the movie were 1829 as dated at the start .the thuggs were finished by 1832.the revolver used here was an 1853 adams.the collier had to be manually moved by the cylinder to fire every shot .it would not fire repeatedly automatically or double action nor would the colt walker or patterson fire iif nt cocked first as the revolver in this does.i suggest you watch the movie again before posting inaccurately.
@@tedwarden1608 its an adams .not made until 1853. no revolver of the modern type existed until the colt paterson of 1836 . no co;;pers flintlocks of the 200 made in the 1810s to 1820s were issued or bought by east india men . also the chances of two seperate officers using a rare very expensive unreliable handgun are nil,. it was a producers error no more.
@@mikekemp9877. You know your firearms better than I :-) I wouldn’t be surprised if those extremely expensive weapons were in their hands though. They were wealthy, connected and in a precarious situation. Just my thoughts.
So as a Hindu you must disagree on the followers of Lord Ram in present day India and how they are attacking religious minorities in the name of Religion, something which Lord Ram would never have done.
@@Michael-gk1nqSTFU , theyyare just responding , imagine if they go on Offence the minorities won't even survive, but our gov is only support those minorities even after a the destruction and mass killings of Hindus is going on over majority Hindus,. Do you have any idea how many trains have been detailed I'm the last 10months, just yesterday there's another derailment happened In Karnataka,So stop this false propaganda about Hindus killing minorities and STFU bot.
Era of half cooked stories. Mother Goddess Kali is indeed destroyer but of evil. She is a mixture of benevolence and fury. As for thuggees they killed mostly Indians, they had nothing to do with worshipping Goddess Kali because a substantial no of them were Muslims :p but as it is written in the time when internet was not around to check facts it can be ignored. Not in murder movies. Would have watched if there were a few ghosts lurking about.
@@carlabroderick5508 Exactly without her and Lord Shiva there wont be any living creatures on the world. Whenever something/someone tried to destroy the creation they stopped it. Not once or twice but again and again.
These movie makers didn’t know anything about Hinduism. They refer goddess KALI as a cult. These stranglers became victims of hundreds years of foreign rulers oppression. They were certainly ruthless murderers. But you can’t blame religion for the misuse of the religion. Nowadays you can’t make these movies in India,that is BHARAT.
Unfortunately , Mother Kaali has been given a bad name. If only they knew what Mother Kaali and Lord Shiva signifies and the scientific knowledge about the Material Cosmos that it conveys.
Thank you for sending me this ancient film. You see the importance of knowing foreign languages are in special operations.
Ancient Film??? I'm 4 Years Older than It Is!!!!!
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds.
Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
Thank you. It was a great watch.
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds.
Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
Loosely based on the John Masters novel, "The Deceivers", in turn based on William Sleeman`s massive task to destroy the Thugee strangling sect in the early 19th century. The cast are all good especially Hammer regulars George Martell and Marne Maitland in native roles, while Guy Rolfe, often cast as a villain in Fifties costume pictures, here plays the hero. For many critics the most outstanding role is busty Marie Devereaux as the sadistic and silent busty acolyte. She is certainly memorable.
Una grata sorpresa ver esta vieja película del género de aventuras en tan buenas condiciones. He sido siempre un amante de tales producciones, como la recreada de los estranguladores de Bombay. Por la trama que se observa y el rol de sus protagonistas en haber legado en estos filmes en cuestión.
Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
And such a cute little mongoose❤
That wife character was amazing. The actress made me believe she was a strong, loyal, loving and trusting wife.
I find it incredibly conservative and wonderful.
In my neighbourhood there is a statue of Kali in a religious shop near the Ganesh shrine. I think either this weekend or next week ought to be a big celebration at the Hindu temple in another part of town, which celebrates both Kali and Ganesh. One of the most extraordinary festivals I've ever attended. The streets are filled with colourful and lavish shrines made by the people, and at night there is a parade of sacred objects, and flaming coconuts.
How I would like to see that!
Where is it located ???
Kalipuja falls on Halloween this year in India. Dont know about your city.
Flaming coconuts!
@@sunchildgaia. How apt :-)
I’m absolutely fascinated by the Hindi story. Ravina abducting Sita. Hanuman and the bridge. Krishna the lover. Such wonderful human stories.
But in the west understanding of the Hindu pantheon is pretty low. I’m not pretending to know much myself. But if I find myself in an unlikely situation where I’m trying to explain how the religion works I would be met with confusion when I said Brahma is the first God and Vishnu and Sheva were the trinity.
As to Kali/Parvati a mother enraged by the slaughter of her children. Damn right she’s scary.
I’ve read some of the Bhagavad Gita. I will I promise finish it but as I said above it’s such a human story that they have to of been real people.
Not the trinity though:-)
If you care to give me your opinion on that I’d be interested.
I wasn’t attempting to explain Hinduism or pretend that I have any depth of knowledge but avatars are as numerous as begats in the Bible.
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The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds.
Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
1. The first half of this movie reminds me of my experiences in the US Army in Vietnam. 2. This movie is a not-bad recreation of Raj India on various sound stages and sand quarries in England. 3. Except for the kookaburra calling during the tiger hunt scene. 4. When I was a kid in Okinawa I saw several fights between a pet mongoose and a habu, the local dangerous snake. The mongoose always won fairly. It was just like this.
Have you ever been to India ?
@@anandcp1 No sir. I've just read a lot of Kipling and history books. I admire the way India has managed to preserve its democracy through so many troubles. It give me hope for my own USA. I am a fan of Indian culture, but not Bollywood so much (although I've seen a few charming movies). I would love to go to India, stay a few years, and see and hear the country in real life.
@@nobodyexpectssi4654 Estoy de acuerdo con usted. He leido las cuentas de Kipling muchas veces durante mi vida. Yo se bien que Kipling fue mas o menos un propagandista por el imperio Britanico, pero el fue un hombre de su propio tiempo, y tambien un artista, no un scientifica. Pardon, por favor, por mi Espanol imperfecto.
@@Axgoodofdunemaul So would I! Sooo much!
@@Axgoodofdunemaul "I admire the way India has managed to preserve its democracy through so many troubles."
The Hinduist regime is anything but "democratic". Ask the Kashmiris. The same goes for another fake "democracy", the U$A, supporting genocide.
The brainwashed herd's belief is funny. 😂"Democracy" is a kind of pagan faith in something never seen.
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The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds.
Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
I recently found out that human sacrifice is still a bit of a problem in India. Kinda surprised me
Amazing how gods and goddesses are use by humans to carryout out their own evil deeds. I am getting myself a mongoose as it was the hero in this movie.
The form of demonic possession and self belief is powerful aphrodisiac to action. Whilst the tongue to hold back the demons is in exorcism most valid. If you have a demon you know it gains power on the suffering and misfortune of others, it then can spawn it's seed automating it's preservation and action. Such monsters exist, whilst they would be known not by faces, but by actions and behaviours.
If we have the same form as the debut of this movie we have the continual reproduction of a demon, in its own monarchy that propagated itself, and so it's behaviour. The blood from harming it allowed it to reproduce and so it was feeding in the blood to gather strength.
In which case the idea was to prevent the blood of the demon from getting out of the body so it's not being fed. However the demon would then lose patience. It became nasty rather than appeased. Like an angry junkie. The anger it used to torture people caused further damage and subsequently it gained blood by its action, like a heroin addict gains heroin by theft a d abuse
In demon there is little that can be done when the demon has possessed the body for the body serves the demon, the body of man serves the demon. A bit like hiv, where the white blood cells are overcome and no longer can the body recognise or defeat the infections. The demon has its own transcriptase and reproduced it's behaviour over time. Yet the cells serve the demon.
A human body possessed of the devil has its roots in our media understanding of how we see it, and, a spiritual body or a church body possessed by a demon is the same. Only if the whole body is demonic how do we survive?
Just another day in Luton.
Yes The British done that for India. They also stopped the practice of sati.
And thuggee.
Colonialism was and is an evil thing, no matter who does it.
@matthabir4837 the plumb nose the bug eye and the goblins ears
Why didn't they stop the witch burning in the Europe?
@@Ni3Sh They did, sadly. That's why the suffragettes were allowed to run amok...
This was on the classic Shock Theater during the 60's. I recall being very disturbed of the why and how the men were blinded and and the woman derisively throwing scraps of food as they were imprisoned in cages. PERHAPS watching and understanding this movie as an adult will be a way to finally be released from that emotional bondage.
Nope. Never.
I think it might well.
Interesting initiation ceremony at beginning now those Indian students are all applying for student visas to get to UK USA and Canada Australia and Europe
And will turn these western countries into India.
An amazing book, The Stranglers by George Bruce a true story of British bravery of William Sleeman who stopped and rooted out them. Aloha from Hawai'i.
A good effort from Hammer.
Seems like someone blagged John Masters' 1952 novel, The Deceivers, about the suppression of Thuggee.
Movie same theme Pierce Bronsan
@@azariahstonar2787 Wasn't aware of that one.
I thought it was Night runners.
It’s been fifty plus years since I read the books.
Now they live in the west
I seen a movie titled The Decivors about a British officer that went too deep trying to infiltrate....it was a FANTASTIC movie
And it's got Roger Delgado - he was taken from us far too soon. We miss him still...
This movie is based on actual facts, I researched after watched it. Fascinating stuff.
There was a modern film on Netflix or prime not long ago about the thugees , sometimes old films are the best though in creating atmosphere
Please share the links if you still have them, will love to read them. I like real fact based movies. If you were saying that Thugees were real then I already know that, that is a historical fact.
I remember seeing goats having their throats slit and their blood being smeared on the devotees of Kali in Calcutta, Kalighat I think. Unlike many Europeans I didn't go to India for enlightenment or transcendental experiences so wasn't dissapointed, just visiting very old relatives who'd stayed on after independence and property my family once owned there near Hoggs Market. A land of thieves,cheats and liars but not without considerable charm.
There is nothing redeeming about India.... or its caste system
This movie is awesome! 👏
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds.
Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
Although this is not directly related to Kali- the goddess of death and renewal, I am reminded of J Robert Oppenheimer's quote of Krishna
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"...
TY FROM KANSAS IN USA (=
Factual they were called Thugee
think one of the Beatles must have seen this. It's reminiscent of the plot of "Help"
Guy Rolfe ok but best film he made "the spider and the fly"1949...
.👍👍
Absolutely!
For all europeans and Americans--- kali is our god, she is a warrior who faught against evil..but some people do and done many evils with her name , but our kali is a mother just like mother Mery..she is kind to her children but become ruthless against the evils who who want to harm her children....we hindus have kalipuja festival on the same days of diwali , festivals of hindus related with kali puja....we have another religious festival on the night of kali puja known as bhoot chaturdashi..which is a xerox copy of your halloween....bhoot mean ghost..the night of the ghosts....nowdays india is not like the british period...india is a civilized country, with a strong millitary power ..just after usa and russia and neck to neck with china..by the blessings of Mother Kaali....
Steven Spielberg clearly saw this movie before writing indiana Jones and the temple of doom😉...
Some of the uncredited cast members were speaking correct and unaccented Hindi, so was the outdoor locales shot in India?
Probably Bray studios knowing Hammer. They shot almost everything in Britain to save money.
Interesting subject, perfect for a Hammer film.
They are in the canadian parliament too 👎🇨🇦💯
A very distorted depiction of a revered Hindu Godess , usual from Cold War era Western film makers. Much is based on Captain Medows Taylor's book Confessions of a Thug
Is not exactly about that. Film focuses not on the goddess but about the people who thought they were her choosen by her.
@@Alv11269. Even that is a misconception. The cult existed but much of the general banditry was because the company had created a sort of peace and thousands of unemployed solders had no wars to fight.
@@Alv11269 It is interesting that across the countries and religions quite often the worst human beings claim that they are chosen by one God or another! Old habits I guess!
True about the first part. Hope they know better now!
When did you watch an undistorted western movie about foreign cultures?
Who the girl with the hoots
😂 ,
The very next comment above has her name!
@@cattymajiv my comment ? , I'm just laughing at the others persons observations ,
Marie Devereux was the " girl with the hoots "
Great movie! Thank you for uploading.
Waiting for the anti-colonial comments (if any) here. Haha Just enjoy the movie!
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds.
Of course none of you illiterate unread unenlightened, ignorant drones know that.
Guy Rolfe sounds a lot like Roger Moore, same voice!
Carry On Thugging
Statues of Goddess Kali does not look like that. Silly Hollywood...
It's not a Hollywood film.... It was made in England. Please educate yourself on the difference between the two.
This was made in the 1950s and at that time there were many depictions of goddess Kali.
@@Michael-gk1nq Not like this one, with naked hanging bosoms and a monstrous face. There are far better depictions but people like you from the West know nothing yet show our Gods in a negative light. Try doing the same for your Jesus for a change. Also, it may be an UK movie and not Hollywood, but the thinking is the same, that India is an exotic wild country with monstrous Gods. So educate urself on other's beliefs before making movies on them and commenting.
@@Michael-gk1nqWhere do they depict like that in India, we have temples which are centuries old of various avatars of Kali still I haven't seen statues like that.
@@arijoymitra2929Edward Said: Orientalism.
Marne maitland was a anglo
Indian also appeared as a
Japanese in camp on blood
Island and mr mohamed in
Im alright jack!
……he was also in 1966 film, ‘Khartoum’…………
@@elizabethroberts6215 A much MUCH better film!
He also played a role in the movie "Bhowani Junction".
How many of you can recognise the actor at 38:00?
The very last line was very prophetic: "This is only the beginning." **Remember that when the violence starts up again and the trouble-makers claim that THEY are the innocent victims and that they deserve every consideration, every priority, and every last Welfare dollar we can give them.
And then also remember the many people who will run from it all rather than face Truth and Reality.
**"COMING SOON TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU." Perhaps when you least suspect it.
A shame people are forward seeing.
Every last welfare dollar we give them? - who are "we" and who are "them"?
Trouble makers?
@@stuartwray6175 You are naive.... or lying
This is speeded up. Slow it to .75 playback speed
Apprezzabile!
Man, I remember seeing this as kid, in the 60s.
Huh, Guy Rolfe, the actor playing the male lead was unfamiliar to me but I see he played King John in "Ivanhoe". Ivanhoe was made 7 years earlier but thanks to makeup, he looked much older there than here.
Read John Masters' "The deceivers" for seeing a more authentic picture of the methods of the thugs.
Is that the original 'Master' from Dr. Who?
Of its time but still a cracking yarn
Terrence Fisher? Well... now I gotta watch it
Andrew Cruickshank was an actor of the same calibre of Charles Laughton
Did the East India company do ANY good?
If colonialism ever did any good.🤣
@@internetcensure5849 Yes it did.
Their shareholders were happy. And don't forget the Dutch and French East India Companies.
Being an Indian, curious to know how this movie was received by westerners when this movie was released in those days. I mean was it a hit movie
No
The original book Confessions of a Thug, author Philip Taylor published 1839 was a smash hit in Victorian Britain.
Imagine righteous Victorians finding the very thing they believed they were destined to save simple foreigners from.
How well a movie is received initially is not related at all to how good it is, or to how good the book is that it was based on!
The real murdering thugs were the East India company and the Rothschilds.
Of course you know that.
Legacy Enterprise vs Windows Vs Kali Linux
Kali Ma and the Thuggee cult...
indiana jones and the the temple of doom
Is this the novel by John Masters?
'Confession of a Thug' (1839) by Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor.
Mark Twain considered a novel.
'The Deceivers' (1955) by John Masters was made into a film of the same name by Ismail Merchant (1988).
'The sacred slaughterers' (2005) by Mike Dash is the most recent historical account
Sleeman and his special detachment of Indian police really did eliminate the cult as described ~1823-5.
I have an orange girl cat named Kali. That story doesn't really have an arc I realize, sorry
what a crazy story
Crazy but true.
@@audreyricci6383 i wonder if we can do the same thing with the marxists cults that have similarly infiltrated our institutions.
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Is this about the thuggees?
William sleeman
Man , no officer carrying weapons , crazy eh
The thugees
She would larf at this, she would larf at thas...
Another lovely old filmSPOILT BY IGNORANT IMPULSIVE OBNOXIOUS ADVERTS ONLY THE 21st CENTURY COULD CONJOUR UP!!!!!!!!!!
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Der Oberpriester trägt das Zeichen von Wishnu auf der Stirn, nicht von Shiva (51:40). Kali gehört zum Kreis Shivas.
revolvers in 1829?
First revolvers made in 1560 in Germany. East India officers were private individuals in the employ of the company. So they would equip themselves but that looks like a colt :-)
The events of the movie were in 1849. Elisha Collier made a revolving flintlock and by 1835 had upgraded it. Colt traveled to England and got patents on his gun in 1835 and returned to the US to secure his patent in 1836. He manufactured the Paterson Colt at his factory in Paterson. It had no trigger guard and the trigger popped out when it was cocked. In 1847 he got a contract from the Texas Rangers. That was the Walker Colt made to the specs of Captain Walker of the Texas Rangers. It was designed to be able to kill a horse and was 4½ lbs. The Colt 1851 model was purchased by the Royal Navy and the British Army in 1855 with orders in the thousands.
@@dhm7815 the events of the movie were 1829 as dated at the start .the thuggs were finished by 1832.the revolver used here was an 1853 adams.the collier had to be manually moved by the cylinder to fire every shot .it would not fire repeatedly automatically or double action nor would the colt walker or patterson fire iif nt cocked first as the revolver in this does.i suggest you watch the movie again before posting inaccurately.
@@tedwarden1608 its an adams .not made until 1853. no revolver of the modern type existed until the colt paterson of 1836 . no co;;pers flintlocks of the 200 made in the 1810s to 1820s were issued or bought by east india men . also the chances of two seperate officers using a rare very expensive unreliable handgun are nil,. it was a producers error no more.
@@mikekemp9877. You know your firearms better than I :-)
I wouldn’t be surprised if those extremely expensive weapons were in their hands though. They were wealthy, connected and in a precarious situation.
Just my thoughts.
That girl has nicest rack I've ever seen.
Are these people the same as the one tagged as"thuggies".
Strongly disagree about maa काली..
She is a saviour of mankind and destroyer of evil
I keep saying it to people but internet is supplying them with this idiotic notion even now. Many are Indian sites.
So as a Hindu you must disagree on the followers of Lord Ram in present day India and how they are attacking religious minorities in the name of Religion, something which Lord Ram would never have done.
@@Michael-gk1nq they may look at it they are destroying evil ,
@@Michael-gk1nqSTFU , theyyare just responding , imagine if they go on Offence the minorities won't even survive, but our gov is only support those minorities even after a the destruction and mass killings of Hindus is going on over majority Hindus,. Do you have any idea how many trains have been detailed I'm the last 10months, just yesterday there's another derailment happened In Karnataka,So stop this false propaganda about Hindus killing minorities and STFU bot.
the loss of access to Toronto’s “local beaches” oh the tragedy😂
Thuggs
Era of half cooked stories. Mother Goddess Kali is indeed destroyer but of evil. She is a mixture of benevolence and fury. As for thuggees they killed mostly Indians, they had nothing to do with worshipping Goddess Kali because a substantial no of them were Muslims :p but as it is written in the time when internet was not around to check facts it can be ignored. Not in murder movies. Would have watched if there were a few ghosts lurking about.
Thanks was hoping someone revealed Kali was a Hindu goddess and that she was like a mother who destroys evil which threatens her children.
@@carlabroderick5508 Exactly without her and Lord Shiva there wont be any living creatures on the world. Whenever something/someone tried to destroy the creation they stopped it. Not once or twice but again and again.
@carlabroderick5508 OUR Beloved Mother Kaali, the protector of all the animals , plants and humans.
@@prp3231 Thanks for letting us know that.
@@Axgoodofdunemaul thank you for being civil and polite, humbly speaking.
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Fascinating. The colonial era and the arrogance of europeans, alien to this religion, society, and culture.
Gizmo.........10/1/24.......….
Wow .the Indian women has the best set of tits . 1959 beautiful. 😊
This is not a good version.
These movie makers didn’t know anything about Hinduism. They refer goddess KALI as a cult. These stranglers became victims of hundreds years of foreign rulers oppression. They were certainly ruthless murderers. But you can’t blame religion for the misuse of the religion. Nowadays you can’t make these movies in India,that is BHARAT.
However hinduism, islam, and certainly other religions are all cults. Even a good club may become a cult if the leader is a narcist.
Unfortunately , Mother Kaali has been given a bad name. If only they knew what Mother Kaali and Lord Shiva signifies and the scientific knowledge about the Material Cosmos that it conveys.
But if they were murderers and stole children , how can you defend them ? ,
@smallfeet4581 no one defends it.
@@prp3231 ok
An idiotic movie
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