North West Frontier [1959] [DVD]

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Dialogue [ edit ] Captain Scott: You're the first American woman I've met. Are they all like you? Catherine Wyatt: Why? How do I seem? Captain Scott: Well, shall we say a little bit more independent than most? Catherine Wyatt: Is that the tactful English way of saying you think I'm pig-headed? Meanwhile, the garrison at Thal, which guarded the Kurram Pass, was soon cut off and besieged by a large Afghan force under the command of General Nadir Khan. The garrison, consisting of four under-strength battalions of Sikhs and Gurkhas and a squadron of cavalry, held out for a week until relieved by a column from Peshawar under Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer.

Grey-and-Grey Morality: Not so much among the central characters, but neither the British nor the rebels are portrayed as being in the right. a b Quarterly Indian Army List January 1919, p. 1255. He was of 13th Bengal Native Infantry Regiment, Cadetship applied for 1833/4.Victoria [the train Victoria] is old, I confess that. But she has experience and when she has experience, nothing can go wrong. Cape Fear", so this material was thankfully in very safe hands. The photography from Geoffrey Unsworth is top notch, barren and desolate landscapes beautifully realising the peril of the passengers' journey, whilst the music from Mischa Spoliansky leaves a lasting impression. Like many things British, the development of the units of Scouts into the Frontier Corps was organic, unplanned and initially unsystematic. It began, in the British manner, as an improvisation to meet a need; it was maintained because it guaranteed certain unique skills at an acceptable price (the great Empire may have vaunted its 'pomp and circumstance' to wow the impressionable, but behind the scenes the deciding factor was often simply the acceptability or otherwise to HM Treasury) and only then was the principle regularised, standardised and systemised (cf. the development of the Frontier Force, from irregulars to a corps d'elite).

General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India (1923). Operations in Waziristan 1919-20. Government Central Press. Delhi. Republished jointly by the Naval & Military Press and the Imperial War Museum. ISBN 1-84342-773-7. John Masters (June 13, 2002). Bugles and a Tiger. Cassell Military (June 13, 2002). p.190. ISBN 0304361569. Roger, Alexander (2003). Battle Honours of the British Empire and Commonwealth Land Forces 1662–1991. Crowood Press. Marlborough, Wiltshire. ISBN 1-86126-637-5.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. The following information is from a supplement called "Railway Films of the Raj" by Ray Ellis, published with the Indian Railway Study Group Newletter No.9, in January 1993. Although regarded as nowadays “no good except for shunting”, her driver, Gupta, has boundless confidence in Victoria:

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. As Paul/Dzine pointed out in his article, in fact, Victoria starts in Spain, first seen on shed at Haserabad, which was in fact the RENFE shed at Guadix, Spain.See also: India in World War II §1944–45 Insurgency in Balochistan, India in World War II §Mazrak Zadran's invasion of India, and Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947 The 4th Regiment of Sikh Infantry served in the Second Burma War, winning the honour P EGU, and then marched 900km from Abbottabad in thirty days to help suppress the revolt in Delhi, and like the Guides going into action on arrival. [54] There it won also D ELHI 1857. [55] The other Sikh Infantry regiments remained in the Punjab. [94] Here we come to one of the film’s essential railway improbabilities, that this humble 0-6-0T is a neglected relic with a once glorious past. In the context of 1959 and the new status of the United States as Top Nation, it is highly significant that it is Lauren Bacall (as the American governess, the widowed Catherine Wyatt) who shoots Van Leyden, thus saving Captain Scott. This must surely have been very meaningful to a 1959 cinema audience, most of whom had recently lived through the Second World War, in which the USA came to Britain’s aid. Ramming Always Works: Well, when the obstacle is a wooden gate and the ram is a fully coaled and watered locomotive with a full head of steam going downhill, yeah, that gate didn't stand a chance.