Northwest Frontier
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Northwest Frontier | |
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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 |
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Northwest Frontier is a 1959 British adventure film starring Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall. The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Robin Estridge, and features Wilfrid Hyde-White, Herbert Lom and I. S. Johar.
In the U.S. the film was re-titled Flame Over India.
[edit] Plot
In India under British rule, a British army officer must take a boy prince from a besieged town on a perilous cross-country train journey to safety. The other passengers on the train include an armaments salesman, an American woman and a suspected spy.