Long it is and utterly dreary. A Prince has to be taken away to safety from rebels, and of course Kenneth More is on hand to do the job. Lauren Bacall joins him for no good real reason other than there had to be a female lead to balance More, and various well known actors of the time are in the train that has to get them out of danger. Bacall walks through the role and does not exactly shine, and the ' love ' gestures towards More are frankly embarrassing. The whole film is one of the late Fifties and Sixties films that had to be long, long , long and scenes are protracted beyond their needs. I class several David Lean films among these, and no doubt it was yet again an effort to get people away from their television screens. The film takes place in India, but I am not completely sure but it may have been Spain. Maybe some scenes were filmed in India as the cast apparently fell ill. If you want to kill unwanted time watch it.
Review of North West Frontier
