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 |
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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.
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.