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King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Directed by Henry King
“GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA!”
Adventure, Drama, Romance · 1h 40m
Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.
Cast
Tyrone Power
Capt. Alan King
Terry Moore
Susan Maitland
Michael Rennie
Brig. Gen. J. R. Maitland
John Justin
Lt. Geoffrey Heath
Guy Rolfe
Karram Khan
Richard Wyler
Lt. Ben Baird
Murray Matheson
Maj. Ian MacAllister
Frank De Kova
Ali Nur
Argentina Brunetti
Lali
S
Sujata Rubener
Native Dancer
P
Patrick Whyte
Lt. White (uncredited)
Lal Chand Mehra
Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Henry King
- Screenplay
- Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff
- Novel
- Talbot Mundy
- Director of Photography
- Leon Shamroy
- Original Music Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Editor
- Barbara McLean
- Producer
- Frank P. Rosenberg
Details
- Release date
- 1953-12-23
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox