The Classic MotorCycle

Going op the junction

This shiny Norton is the transport of Bill Travers and Ava Gardner, on the set of the 1956 film Bhowani Junction, a 154-minute epic filmed on location in Pakistan, directed by New Yorker George Cukor, who was to go on to win the Academy Award for best director for 1964's My Fair Lady.

Cukor, famously, was also fired as director of 1939's Gone With the Wind, at the request ofleading man Clark Gable.

Bhowani Junction was

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