now stands within Man Sagar Lake, the water levels in the 1950s were so low, horseriders could be filmed riding up to its entrance. In Amber the Amber Fort was used as the British governor's residence; other scenes prominently feature the Jagat Shiromani Temple complex. Hundreds of extras were employed for the shots filmed in India. The metre-gauge railway running through Jaipur was used for the scenes where More escapes by train and later discovers the massacre of the refugee train. Filming of the rail sequences started in the province of Granada, Spain on 10 May 1959 and took five weeks to complete. 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. 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 ). The ending used Iznalloz railway station near Barrio Primero De Mayo (at ). Reception The film was a major hit in the UK, being among the six most popular films in Great Britain for the year ended 31 October 1959. Kenneth More wrote in his memoirs that it "was a great success". The film was one of seven made by Rank which were bought for distribution in the US by 20th Century Fox. Lauren Bacall called it a "good little movie ... with a stupid title" (referring to the US title, Flame Over India). The Guardian called it "a big British western." George MacDonald Fraser praised the performance of I.S. Johar: It was a true rendering of a type imitated successfully by Peter Sellers and others, the quaintly-spoken ‘Oh-jollee-good-Sahib’ funny Indian — a genuine character familiar to everyone who knows the subcontinent. One critic took violent exception to Johar’s performance: it was a disgraceful caricature, and Johar should be ashamed of himself. I’d like to believe the critic thought that was true, but I doubt it. I suspect the critic knew Johar’s portrayal was absolutely faithful, but preferred to pretend it wasn’t because the critic found it embarrassing, and didn’t like to think that Indians ever really behaved like that — or if they did, it shouldn’t be shown on screen. In other words, damn the truth if it doesn’t fit with what one would like to believe