The Stranglers of Bombay is a 1959 British adventure horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson and Andrew Cruickshank.
Captain Harry Lewis of the British East India Company is investigating why over 2,000 natives are missing, but encounters a deaf ear from his superior, Colonel Henderson, who is more concerned with the local merchants' caravans which are disappearing without a trace.
The film ends with a narrative display detailing that the Thugee cult was subsequently wiped out by the British, and a quotation by Major General William Sleeman: "If we have done nothing else for India, we have done this one good thing."
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "In spite of, or more probably because of, its veneer of historical truth, this is a particularly bestial contribution to the Hammer horror cycle: the parallels to much more recent atrocities seem more marked then ever.
The production is the usual flea-bitten affair, unimaginatively unconvincing, quite without period sense, and relying almost entirely for its appeal on visual outrages – blindings, evisceration, human heads thrown on to dinner tables, and so forth – which gain if anything by being shot for once in black-and-white.