is true — an attitude which, honesty aside, seems to me offensively patronising. Fraser admired th film and More's performance saying "he had a cheery truculence that was much closer to the real Imperial type than the conventional stiff upper lip." He added "The one flaw [of the film] was the title; I remarked to the technical adviser, a senior ex-Indian Army officer, that it seemed odd, having a Hindu prince up yonder, and he replied that he had no idea where the film was meant to be taking place, but wherever it was, it was not the Frontier." The film led to J. Lee Thompson being hired to direct Guns of Navarone. After original director Alexander Mackendrick was fired, star Gregory Peck saw Northwest Frontier and agreed for Thompson to take over. Nominations References Bibliography Chibnall, Steve, J. Lee Thompson Manchester University Press, 2000 External links North West Frontier at Rotten Tomatoes North West Frontier at BFI Screenonline North West Frontier at British Film Institute (archived) 1959 films 1950s British films 1950s English-language films 1950s historical adventure films British Empire war films British historical adventure films CinemaScope films Films directed by J. Lee Thompson Films set in 1905 Films set in the British Raj Films set in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Films set on trains Films shot in India Films shot at Pinewood Studios Films shot in Spain Province of Granada Rail transport films