North West Frontier [1959] [DVD]

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Later that day, while stopping to refill the engine's water tank, Scott walks into the pump house to find Van Leyden allowing Prince Kishan to stand dangerously close to the pump's rapidly spinning flywheel. In the evening Van Leyden refuses alcohol and the group correctly deduce he is Muslim. He explains this by saying he is half Indian. During the night, Mr. Van Leyden again approaches the prince, only to notice Lady Windham watching him.

Donald F. Featherstone (1973). Colonial small wars, 1837-1901. David & Charles. p.9. ISBN 0715357115 . Retrieved 5 April 2011. Performances are excellent from all concerned. Kenneth More - always an appealing actor - gives another personable portrayal just like he did playing legless pilot Douglas Bader in "Reach Fot Sky" three years earlier. Lauren Bacall though seems a little out of place in a British movie but was obviously cast to give some appeal to the American market (She has top billing on the American prints and the publicity). But the standout performance comes from the great Herbert Lom whose real name - you wont believe - happens to be ......wait for it... Herbert Angelo Kuchacevich Ze Schluderpacherm. Ouch! How about that? Thankfully his name in the picture is simply Van Layden. Also of interest is the splendid music score by Russian composer Mischa Spoliansky which boasts some great action cues, a nice love theme for the pictures softer moments and to point up the British presence in India good use is made of the rousing "Eton Boating Song" which is interpolated into the score and in one scene is vocalized by Mr. More.

New frontier policy

Best scenes -there are plenty of them but this is my favorite-:the travelers stop in a station where a train full of dead bodies is waiting for them.The flies and the vultures are here too.The governess finds a survivor: a little baby ;they will use a glove as a feeding bottle.

The locomotive, or rather, locomotives, depict the Empress of India, affectionately referred to as “Victoria”, a once fine, but now elderly and neglected locomotive. Her coach, abandoned as unserviceable, seems of equal antiquity. In this story, a Hindu maharajah's state is being overrun by Moslem rebels. Kenneth More as a British captain is charged with getting the small son out of the kingdom and to safety along with the child's nurse, an American played by Lauren Bacall. It is 1905 and the feud is raging in India's Northwest territories between Moslims and Hindus and their British masters. Six year old Hindu Prince Kishen's life is in grave danger. As heir to the Hindu throne the Moslims must annihilate him at all costs and it falls to the British to protect the little prince. After rescuing him from the palace British Captain Scott (Kenneth More) must now secretly sneak the boy, his governess (Lauren Bacall) plus a motley collection of escapees out of the British Embassy at Hasarbad and make a dash by train to Kolapur three hundred miles away in Delhi. Almost from the moment they begin their journey under the cover of darkness the action never lets up. From then on there are well executed action scenes throughout the picture particularly exciting is the siege of the British compound by Moslim forces with hundreds storming the ramparts. Such scenes are as good if not better than anything Hollywood could conjure up.The difficulties they experienced made the British change their policy on the North West Frontier. Until 1947, Waziristan was permanently garrisoned with experienced regular troops, who worked closely with local militia units. I accept there are differences, look at the (steampipe?) casing on smoke box side. It's there on the Kohat and 'Haserbad' locomotives, but not Burgundy's. Another obvious difference is that the Kohat and Haserabad locomotives are outside cylindered. Note the differences in the splashers, too. Boilers and boiler mountings are perhaps more likely than other differences to be found in locomotives of the same class. Could it still be the same class that has been rebuilt at some stage, or, at least, a similar standard design? Well, probably not the same class, the step down in the running plate to the cab seems to suggest that the Haserbad locomotive might have larger driving wheels than Burgundy's locomotive. Still, there is a strong family resemblance between the two types, to say the least. Jaipur; Dahar Ka Balaji; Nindhar Benar; Bhaton Ki Gali; Chomun Samod; Govindgarh Malk; Ringas Junction; Baori Thikria; Palsana; Goriya; Sikar Junction, a distance of some 123 miles. The shaping power of Hollywood was not only apparent in the understanding of genre, but also in other aspects of production and reception. The British director of the film, J. Lee Thompson, had dreamed since childhood of being ‘an American film director’, and moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s (Chibnall, 2000, 278). The production company — Rank — had announced a policy of only producing films that had international entertainment value in 1956 and, in their determination to get films into the American market, had established Rank Film Distributors of America in 1957 to penetrate the American market and bypass the American distributors (Porter, 1997, 129). North West Frontierwas titled Flame Over Indiafor American distribution and Empress of Indiafor Australian. It starred Lauren Bacall as the American governess, investing a British adventure landscape with the glamour and modernity associated with Hollywood. If all of that is correct (!), 1/72nd scale is 4.233 recurring mm to 1 foot! 16.5mm divided by 4.233 = 3.897. Call that 3.9 feet, as I am getting rather tired.