Bhowani Junction

Bhowani Junction is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1952 novel Bhowani Junction by John Masters made by MGM. The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and Ivan Moffat. The film stars Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian officer in the Indian Army, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, an Indian Army officer, with Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Lionel Jeffries and Neelo who went on to become one of the leading ladies of the Pakistan film industry. The film was shot in England at MGM-British... Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire and on the Longmoor Military Railway, and on location in Lahore, Pakistan. In the book Rodney Savage commands a Gurkha Battalion. In the film, however, he commands the famous 1/13 Frontier Force Battalion , which at that time of filming was part of the 7th Division of the Pakistan Army. Also in the movie is the 4th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, the band at the Lahore Railway Station with a deer as its mascot, and the troops taking part in the train accident were from the 4/13th.
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