North West Frontier [1959] [DVD]

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Thompson, Howard (30 April 1960). "Review: Flame over India". The New York Times . Retrieved 8 August 2017.

The brigades Frontier designation was discontinued in 1847, and the four regiments became Sikh Local Infantry. From 1861 the force included a 7th Infantry Regiment, formed from the Hazara Gurkha Battalion, which later that year joined the Gurkha Line as the 5th Gurkha Regiment. [96] Punjab Frontier Force [ edit ] Roger, Alexander (2003). Battle Honours of the British Empire and Commonwealth Land Forces 1662–1991. Crowood Press. Marlborough, Wiltshire. ISBN 1-86126-637-5.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 five remaining regiments of Punjab Infantry were consecutively renumbered in the same sequence to become:- Indeed, dangerous country. The middle picture is of a station called Hangu. The right hand is, I think, of Thal. I am not sure the line was there in 1897, but I think it was by 1905; a lot of the railways in this area where military in inspiration, so went hand in hand with the growing need to campaign in the region. The Khojak tunnel line in Baluchistan, for instance, was completed in 1891. The line to Kohat is not shown in the maps in Frontier Ablaze. Although a tongue-in-cheek adventure movie, it doesn't shy away from the darker elements of human nature. These are explored in the intelligent dialogue, but exposed in the circumstances too. At one point, they encounter an earlier train which has been intercepted by bandits. Everyone aboard has been slaughtered. It is very simply but grimly presented. No needless gore; just a sad pensive silence broken by the buzzing flies and caw of vultures. Lom's character isn't the impartial observer he pretends. As a Muslim, he sympathises with the insurgents, and means to murder the boy himself if he can. In 1922 the separation became permanent, when the mounted branch was redesignated the 10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force), [57] and the infantry was amalgamated as the 5th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment (Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides). [58] Sind Frontier Force [ edit ]

During the Second Sikh War both the 1st and 2nd Irregular Horse earned further distinction with 'M OOLTAN', 'G OOJERAT', and 'P UNJAUB'. [64]

Lauren Bacall also gives a fine performance, in a role which could easily have been the film's weakest link as a token Hollywood 'big name' for the American market. While the likes of Lom and Hyde White fill their roles with practised ease as I. S Gupta steals every scene he is in. Obviously in 1959 there was one British film star who would be man enough for that task, no, not John Mills but Kenneth More, beloved by audiences in his home nation for his good humour, unswerving sense of decency, and ability to keep his head while under pressure. Playing Captain Scott, he was ideal as the officer in whose hands the mission is safe, but the plot was not as straightforward as it might have appeared on the surface, as there were hidden depths as well as perils to be taken into account, not to mention a capable ensemble cast who were rather marvelous under the circumstances. Although often called the British Stagecoach, that was not to denigrate the quality here. Donald Sydney Richards (1990). The savage frontier: a history of the Anglo-Afghan wars. Macmillan. p.182. ISBN 0333525574 . Retrieved 5 April 2011. Filming of the rail sequences started in the province of Granada, Spain on 10 May 1959 and took five weeks to complete. [14] The area's dry arid steppe was used to portray British India. Parts of the railway, which is now abandoned, traversed the northern part of the Sierra Nevada between Guadix and Baza. [15] The bomb-damaged rail bridge that the train must cross is the Anchurón bridge over the Solanas de la Carreta near the hamlet of Belerda in Granada (at 37°23′22.82″N 3°11′44.44″W / 37.3896722°N 3.1956778°W / 37.3896722; -3.1956778 ( Location of the damaged bridge in the film Northwest Frontier)). The ending used Iznalloz railway station near Barrio Primero De Mayo (at 37°23′45.27″N 3°31′39.75″W / 37.3959083°N 3.5277083°W / 37.3959083; -3.5277083).

The movie is beautifully filmed, with great vistas of wilderness and excellent colour. Train-spotters will enjoy the railway details. Mighty Whitey: Peters and Scott both demonstrate this attitude. Scott even describes the Indians as "children" at one point. The Frontier Corps were not founded expressly on a tribal basis, but the older corps drew their recruits from the local tribal area: The brigade was formed by Lt. Col. Henry Montgomery Lawrence from four regiments of infantry raised in 1846 from veterans of the Sikh forces disbanded after the First Anglo-Sikh War:- Between the wars imperial epics displaying expansive adventure landscapes were produced by the British film industry, including the Korda trilogy of Sanders of the River(1935), The Drum(1938), and The Four Feathers(1939) – the latter two in Technicolor. In the late 1930s Hollywood also made a number of films that celebrated the British empire and bore some resemblance to Westerns, but ceased making such films after the Second World War. While the empire genre in British film continued, there were considerable changes that modernised imperial identity and changed the presentation of imperial heroes and adventure landscapes to bring them into line with the ideal of a Commonwealth of equal nations.

No. 4 or Garrison Company, PIF, raised at Bannu in 1851 by Lt. S. W. Stokes, from the supernumeraries of a Sikh detachment of artillery which had been broken up and drafted into the horse light field batteries. [90] The Frontier Revolt of 1897-8 saw the 3rd Sikh and 2nd Punjab Infantries employed in the Tirah Campaign, earning them the honors T IRAH and P UNJAB F RONTIER. The 5th Gurkha Rifles was also awarded P UNJAB F RONTIER. [102] Battles Nomenclature Committee (1921). The Official Names of the Battles and other Engagements fought by the Military Forces of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914–1919, and the Third Afghan War 1919. His Majesty's Stationery Office, London. In 1895 the Derajat and Hazara Mountain Batteries were part of the relief expedition that was rewarded with the honour C HITRAL. [101] 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.