Dehradun, Feb. 10 -- Author's Collection

A list of the films shot in Mussoorie would end up being a book as thick as a phone directory. But a list of the ones that came close to being shot here but did not happen might be even longer.

Bhola Singh Rawat (later Chairman of the Municipal Board from 1971 to 1976) remembered how, in the days of his youth, in 1958, he had seen Barbara Rush, Stewart Granger, and IS Johar check into the Hakman's Grand Hotel. They hung around the hotel lobby, hoping to get permission to shoot Harry Black & the Tiger in the forest of Kansro. With permissions not forthcoming, they relocated to the forests around Mysore. During the shoot, they were assisted by Donald Anderson, son of the Scottish hunter and author ...