The Long Duel

India during the 1920’s, and the North West Frontier is the scene of constant conflict. A tribe, the ‘Bhantas’, has been wrongfully imprisoned along with their Sultan (Yul Bryner). One day they escape but they are now outlaws, mercilessly hunted by the British. A young officer (Trevor Howard), is instructed to track them down but as he does so, he realises the Sultan and his men are decent and dignified. In a desperate attempt to avert a massacre, he pleads with them to give themselves up.