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A youngster and her governess flee the anti-British violence erupting in 19th-century India, helped by two courageous but mutually hostile military men - whose personal enmity eventually abates as they battle to survive the gruelling journey to safety. Adventure, starring Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds and Jenny Agutter in her screen debut
1964
subtitles
Adventure
Historical/Period Drama
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Anthony Quayle
(Actor)
.. Richard Baker
Sylvia Syms
(Actor)
.. Margaret Woodville
Derek Fowlds
(Actor)
.. Murchison
Jenny Agutter
(Actor)
.. Asua
Johnny Sekka
(Actor)
.. Kimrasi
Harold Coyne
(Actor)
.. Maj Harris
Joseph Layode
(Actor)
.. Gondoko
Ellario Pedro
(Actor)
.. Witch doctor
Nathan Juran
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Anthony Quayle
(Actor)
.. Richard Baker
Sylvia Syms
(Actor)
.. Margaret Woodville
Born:
January 06, 1934
in
London
Best Known For:
At Home with the Braithwaites and her 1950s movie roles.
Early-life:
Sylvia Syms was born on January 6, 1934, in London. Not to be confused with the Broadway singer of the same name, this Sylvia Syms was an evacuee and was educated at various convent schools and a grammar school. She honed her acting craft at Rada where she received The Gerald Lawrence Scholarship and an HM Tenants Award.
Career:
Syms' first film role came in 1953's It Happens Every Thursday. Three years later, her big break came in My Teenage Daughter. She was a highly popular star for the next 15 years thanks to such movies as Ice-Cold in Alex, Expresso Bongo, Victim, and The Quare Fellow, featuring arguably her best performance. She was also nominated for a Bafta for The Tamarind Seed in 1974. Since then, her most memorable work has largely been on TV, although she did have a small role in 1989's Shirley Valentine. She had a regular role in Peak Practice in the mid-1990s and became a familiar face again thanks to At Home with the Braithwaites.
Quote:
'I quite like my own company. I've never really been worried about getting older or being alone.'
Derek Fowlds
(Actor)
.. Murchison
Born:
September 02, 1937
in
London
Best Known For:
Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister and Heartbeat.
Early-life:
Born in London on September 2, 1937, Derek left school at 15 and worked in a factory as an apprentice painter. It was during his national service that he was encouraged to take up acting. He went on to win a scholarship and grant for Rada.
Career:
Fowlds made his stage debut in the West End in The Miracle Worker and continued to win stage work and small roles in films before he became known to millions as Mr Derek in children's series The Basil Brush Show, which ran from 1969 to 1973. His big break came in 1980 when he landed the role of Bernard Woolley in BBC sitcom Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister. He went on to play Oscar Blaketon in long-running ITV police drama Heartbeat from 1992 until 2010.
Quote:
'I'm still waiting to be discovered.'
Trivia:
He married Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd in 1974. They divorced four years later.
Jenny Agutter
(Actor)
.. Asua
Born:
December 20, 1952
in
Taunton, Somerset
Best Known For:
The Railway Children.
Early-life:
Jennifer Ann Agutter was born on December 20, 1952, in Taunton, Somerset. She has an older brother, Jonathan. Her father was an Army officer and, as a result, the family travelled the world, living in such places as Germany, Singapore and Cyprus. At 11, she returned to the UK to attend the Elmhurst Ballet School in Surrey. While there, she became hooked on acting, and made her movie debut in 1964's East of Sudan.
Career:
In 1966, Agutter landed her first starring role in Ballerina. She made several forgettable films before her big break - 1970's The Railway Children (she had appeared in the TV adaptation two years earlier and would star in a 2000 remake). A year later, she made the acclaimed Walkabout, and relocated to America. Subsequent roles include Logan's Run, The Eagle Has Landed, Equus, and An American Werewolf in London. She returned to Britain in the early 1990s, where she dabbles in photography and works for various good causes. She has also featured in The Parole Officer, The Alan Clark Diaries, Spooks, New Tricks, The Invisibles and surprise hit Call the Midwife.
Quote:
'Los Angeles is like a desert. The only thing that exists is the work you do. You have that sense of living a precarious existence.'
Trivia:
In 2014, she was one of 200 public figures who signed a letter opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to the referendum.
Johnny Sekka
(Actor)
.. Kimrasi
Harold Coyne
(Actor)
.. Maj Harris
Joseph Layode
(Actor)
.. Gondoko
Ellario Pedro
(Actor)
.. Witch doctor
Nathan Juran
(Director)
