Yul Brynner

Trevor Howard

Charlotte Rampling

Harry Andrews

Andrew Keir

Virginia North

Laurence Naismith

Maurice Denham

Imogen Hassall

Paul Hardwick

Antoñito Ruiz

David Sumner

Rafiq Anwar

George Pastell

Shivendra Sinha

Kurt Christian

Dino Shafeek

Terry Yorke

Patrick Newell

Jeremy Lloyd

Terence Alexander

Marianne Stone

Aldo Sambrell

Ben Tatar

Zohra Sehgal

Abelardo Melero

Ken Annakin

Ernest Borneman

Aida Young

Peter Yeldham

Jack Hildyard

Bert Bates

F. Sherwin Green

Dudley Messenger

Trevor Crole-Rees

Stephanie Kaye

John Furniss

John Scott

Jean Bear

Vivian Cox

Alex Vetchinsky

Rebecca Breed

Drama

Action

Adventure

The Long Duel

Paramount Pictures

Pinewood Studios

United Kingdom

हिन्दी

English

Just…long… 

Run of the mill historical adventure yarn set on India’s North-West Frontier during the British Raj. Yul Brynner plays rebel tribesman Sultan who is pursued by Brit copper Freddy Young (Trevor Howard), who while chasing down the enigmatic rebel comes to respect him and is unwilling to execute the justice requested by his superiors.
 

The intent to make an historical epic of some worth, that is based on facts, is honourable. It looks nice with an authentic feel to the surroundings of the story, if only it wasn’t so laboured, so full of inane posturing and poorly scripted characters, then it might just about crawl its way to being just above average. 

It rarely excites, director Ken Annakin unable to inject life into the more perkier aspects of plotting, and a cast that also features Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, Virginia North and Andrew Keir, aren’t tasked with much more than reading their lines efficiently. All in all, not very convincing away form the location photography and costuming. 4/10

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"Sultan" (Yul Brynner) leads his largely peaceable tribe as the days of the Raj increasingly impose themselves on their day-to-day living. Imprisoned after a raid, they manage to break out of the fort but one of their guards is killed, This serves to galvanise the Governor (Maurice Denham) to appoint a solider tasked with apprehending this man before his disorder spreads. To that end he engages the rather unpopular but effective "Capt. Young" (Trevor Howard). What now ensues are a series of cat-and-mouse escapades as each man vies for the upper hand. The story of a principled man fighting for freedom against the oppressor is quite effective and both Brynner and Howard are on reasonable form as the two characters begin to respect each other, but the rest of the cast - especially the sterile Harry Andrews as "Stafford" and the even more curiously cast Andrew Keir as the turban-clad "Gungaram" - rather let the thing down. The (Spanish) location photography adds richness to the story and there is enough action to help us overlook a rather implausible romance between Howard and "Jane" (Charlotte Rampling) and the rather wordy dialogue that dogs this otherwise adequate costume drama. It ends in rather an underwhelming, if optimistic, fashion but I like the genre and this is perfectly watchable - just a bit long and not very memorable.

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