Miss Frontier Mail (1936)

Directed by

Homi Wadia

Genre

adventure film

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 22m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A station master is framed for murder by a masked villain who wants to ruin the railway and replace it with an airline. His daughter Savita, a fearless woman, takes on the gang of bandits and performs dangerous stunts on a speeding train to stop the plot.

adventurousfast-pacedaction-packeddaringold-fashionedthrillingsuspenseful

What happens

Miss Frontier Mail is a 1936 Indian action crime thriller film directed by Homi Wadia and produced by Wadia Movietone. The film starred Fearless Nadia, billed as the "Indian Pearl White" in the film. Her co-stars were Sardar Mansur, John Cawas billed as "Eddie Polo", Atish Sayani and Gulab. It was the third in the Diamond Thriller series. Like each film in the series, this too was a success. Nadia plays Savita whose father is the station master framed for a murder committed by a masked man. The masked man is intent on disrupting the railway service of the town to make way for an airline service. The highlights are Nadia's stunts on top of a speeding train fighting a gang of rail-road bandits. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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