Free Movie, Northwest Frontier, (Flame Over India)

[Texas Star]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlBV53MSlsg[/ame]

I mentioned this film in one of our gun forums as a good place to see Webley revolvers. But thought to post the movie link here, where more members will see it.

This has been one of my longtime favorite films. I first saw it in a theater in 1960, and when I found the DVD , bought it.

Stars Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall. I think you'll like it. It probably couldn't be made today, given world changes.

The plot involves a British captain and an American governess trying to save a Hindu prince from rival jihadist hordes.

Watch for a No. 4 .303 rifle here and there among the extras. Actually, even the No. I MK III rifles were too advanced for the storyline, set in 1905. The No.1 MK 1 was the norm, or in India, probably even long Lee-Enfields. The No. 1 MK III arrived in 1907. Note the Maxim gun, pre-Vickers, with a brass water jacket.

Enjoy!

 

[Texas Star]

Didn't anyone watch this? I went to some trouble to post it.

Evidently, 170 people looked at the post. Did no one other than Onomea like the film?!

 

[bigmtnman]

Yep... I watched it recently. I found it cruising YouTube. As I was watching, I began to realize I had seen it before. I had forgotten all about this movie because evidently it was not one that got shown later on TV for some reason. I saw it first run (probably on a Saturday afternoon) when I would have been 14. I enjoyed it again for the second time last month. Great cast, story, and action. In today's climate, the Jihadi traitor's death was particularly satisfying !

 

[kwselke]

Didn't anyone watch this? I went to some trouble to post it.

Evidently, 170 people looked at the post. Did no one other than Onomea like the film?!

I did not notice your original post. Was not aware the movie was one of many full length features available on YouTube. I know that movie well. Some fine acting and great scenes. Going over the partially blown railroad bridge was great special effects for the day. The little engine that could, with a lovable engineer.

 

[Texas Star]

"Safari" with Victor Mature and Janet Leigh is also on You Tube now in English. They've had a dubbed Spanish version for some time, but now the English version is posted. Better beat feet over there before it gets pulled for a copyright issue or something. It was made by some of the people who later made the James Bond films.

Both of these movies meant a lot to me in my youth.

 

[k22fan]

I watched half of it last night and will finish it tonight. I saw it as a kid, probably on TV. The scenes are all familiar but the only one I was expecting in advance of seeing it was the refuge train massacre. That scene stuck in an elementary school boy's memory. They should have disconnected the old locomotive short of the side track and run it off onto the side track then disconnected the modern locomotive and its coal car, run it ahead onto the main line, then backed it up and connected the two coal cars. The argument against that would have been risk of attack.

What I liked least about the first big battle scene was artery shells exploding among groups of men with no effect on the men. Hadn't the director heard of shrapnel? Oh well, it is a movie.

Speaking of which, it is good to remember that the vast majority of the rifles were actually made by DuPont. It is a lot more comfortable for extras to fall off their horses onto rubber rifles. Rubber rifles were not necessarily cast to match any particular model in detail. Even over looking the fact that they were too modern a version of the Lee Enfield, I found it odd that in the first battle scenes the Muslim army was armed entirely with the empire's most modern rifle. Arming half of them with Martini Henrys during the attack on the train was more realistic. I kept stopping the film to try to get a look at Martini Henrys but only found blurred images. In real life some were converted to .303.

Thank-you for linking the movie.

 

[Texas Star]

I think Indian Army troops played the extras, and used their current service rifles.