King of the Khyber Rifles

Dec 23, 1953

1h 40m

★ 5.8

GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA!

Overview

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.

Genres

Adventure

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Capt. Alan King

Tyrone Power

Susan Maitland

Terry Moore

Brig. Gen. J. R. Maitland

Michael Rennie

Lt. Geoffrey Heath

John Justin

Karram Khan

Guy Rolfe

Lt. Ben Baird

Richard Wyler

Maj. Ian MacAllister

Murray Matheson

Ali Nur

Frank De Kova

Lali

Argentina Brunetti

Native Dancer

Sujata Rubener

Lt. White (uncredited)

Patrick Whyte

Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)

Lal Chand Mehra

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