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British forts which existed in India
60 years ago, and covering three-and-
a-half acres, the Hollywood structure
cost the producers exactly $117,843.17,
a bill that paid only for the exterior.
The interior (which included the ar-
senal, a village, the bachelor officers'
quarters), plus a palace-, tacked on
another $50,000.
The uniforms for the Bengal Lanc-
ers themselves resulted in a tab for
$22,000. No more than 18 Lancers are
used in any one show, however. Cam-
era angles and other sly methods of
visual cheating make them look like
40 ·or better.
To equip the Lancers with necessary
props, such as guns and the lances
they carry, cost another
$18,000. Set dressing (i.e.,
draperi~s, urns, furni-
ture, etc.) added $25,000
to the bill.
Adding it continued
Left: Co-star Phr~ Carey.
Below: Carey with Warren
Stevens (left) and Pat
Whyte, Lancers' colonel.

Fort Oghora, above, in
California wasteland. Its
complement: 18 men, of
whom 16 appear in photo.

Screen Gems ma.lik called a jirgah.
Out of it came the solution .to the
problem: Build a fort in_ California.
Two months after this imperial
command was issued, Fort Oghora
rose from the desert wastes of Vas-
quez Rocks on the northwest frontier
of a peshawar called Hollywood. Rep-
resenting a -composite of the many