Northwest Frontier (retitled Flame Over India in the U.S.) 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.
The film is set in the North-West Frontier Province of British India, which now lies within modern Pakistan. The film explores tensions between Hindu and Moslem Indians as well as examining the role of the British Empire at the start of the twentieth century.
In northwestern India soon after the turn of the 20th Century, Moslem rebels seek to kill a six-year-old Hindu prince to end his family line. Captain Scott of the British Army is ordered to get the prince out of the region safely. Adventure ensues as Scott sneaks the child away, through Moslem-held territory, by train. Also on board are the boy's American governess, an arms merchant, a cynical reporter, and two upper class Britons. Written by George S. Davis
