North West Frontier (film)
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| Directed by | J. Lee Thompson |
| Produced by | Marcel Hellman |
| Written by |
Robin Estridge Frank S. Nugent Patrick Ford Will Price |
| Starring |
Kenneth More Lauren Bacall Herbert Lom Wilfrid Hyde-White I. S. Johar |
| Music by | Mischa Spoliansky |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| Edited by | Frederick Wilson |
| Distributed by | The Rank Organisation (UK), 20th Century Fox (USA) |
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Release date
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7 October 1959 (London Premiere) |
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Running time
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129 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £500,000 |
North West Frontier (a.k.a. Flame Over India in the United States and Empress of India in Australia) is a 1959 British CinemaScope adventure film, produced by Marcel Hellman and directed by J. Lee Thompson. It stars Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, and also featured Wilfrid Hyde-White and I. S. Johar.
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 Muslim Indians as Muslim rebels attack a fortress to kill a Hindu maharajah.
The success of North West Frontier led to J. Lee Thompson beginning his American career as a director. He went on to make the The Guns of Navarone in 1961, which was also noted for Geoffrey Unsworth's cinematography. Lauren Bacall called it a "good little movie ... with a stupid title" (referring to the US title Flame Over India.)
In the North West Frontier of British India of 1905, a Hindu maharajah asks British Army Captain Scott (Kenneth More) to take his young son, Prince Kishan, to the safety of the Governor's Residence in Haserabad, due to a Muslim uprising in his province. Accompanying them is a widow, Mrs Wyatt (Lauren Bacall), the prince's American nanny/governess. The rebels soon storm the palace and kill the maharajah.
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