Northwest Frontier
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| Northwest Frontier | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | J. Lee Thompson |
| Produced by | Marcel Hellman |
| Written by | Robin Estridge Frank S. Nugent Will Price |
| Starring | Kenneth More Lauren Bacall Herbert Lom Wilfrid Hyde-White I.S. Johar |
| Music by | Mischa Spoliansky |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| Editing by | Frederick Wilson |
| Distributed by | Rank |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 129 min. |
| Country | U.K. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The film is set in the North-West Frontier Province of British India, which now lies within modern Pakistan. The film explores tensions between Hindu and Moslem Indians as well as examining the role of the British Empire at the start of the twentieth century.
[edit] Plot
In 1905, in British India, during a Muslim uprising, a British army officer (Kenneth More) must take a six-year-old Hindu boy prince and his American governess (Lauren Bacall) from a besieged fortress town on a perilous cross-country train journey to safety. The other passengers include an armaments salesman of questionable ethics and a trouble-making journalist (Herbert Lom).
[edit] Cast
- Kenneth More as Captain Scott
- Lauren Bacall as Catherine Wyatt
- Herbert Lom as Van Layden
- Wilfred Hyde-White as Birdie
- I. S. Johar as Gupta, the engineer
- Ursula Jeans as Lady Wyndham
- Eugene Deckers as Peters
- Ian Hunter as Sir John Wyndham
- Jack Gwillim as Brigadier Ames
- Govind Raja Ross as Prince Kishan
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