Public Domain Movies

The Black Watch is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code adventure epic film directed by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, and David Torrence. It was written by John Stone, based on the 1916 novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy, with dialogue by James Kevin McGuinness.

A captain in the British Army's Black Watch regiment is assigned to a secret mission in India just as his company is called to France at the outbreak of war in August 1914. His covert assignment results in his being considered a coward by his fellows, a suspicion confirmed when he becomes involved in a drunken brawl in India that results in the apparent death of another officer. He goes to stop a mysterious woman named Yasmani from leading a Pashtu tribe in a holy war against the British. After falling in love with the captain, following a skirmish in which the tribesmen are killed by British soldiers using machine guns, Yasmani dies in his arms. The captain returns to his regiment.

Cast
Victor McLaglen as Capt. Donald Gordon King
Myrna Loy as Yasmani
David Torrence as Field Marshal
David Rollins as Lt. Malcolm King
Cyril Chadwick as Maj. Twynes
Lumsden Hare as Colonel of the Black Watch
Roy D'Arcy as Rewa Ghunga
David Percy as Soloist, Black Watch Officer
Mitchell Lewis as Mohammed Khan
Claude King as General in India
Walter Long as Harrim Bey
Francis Ford as Maj. MacGregor
Frederick Sullivan as General's Aide
Richard Travers as Adjutant
Pat Somerset as O'Connor, Black Watch Officer
Joseph Diskay as Muezzin
Joyzelle Joyner as Dancer
Gregory Gaye as a 42nd Highlander (uncredited)
Mary Gordon as Sandy's Wife (uncredited)
Bob Kortman as a 42nd Highlander (uncredited)
Tom London as a 42nd Highlander (uncredited)
Jack Pennick as a 42nd Highlander (uncredited)
Randolph Scott as a 42nd Highlander (uncredited)
Phillips Smalley as the Doctor (uncredited)
Lupita Tovar in a Bit Part (uncredited)
John Wayne as a 42nd Highlander (uncredited)