King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA!
100 min
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.
- Release date
- December 23, 1953
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Bernard Herrmann
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Cast
- Tyrone Power as Capt. Alan King
- Terry Moore as Susan Maitland
- Michael Rennie as Brig. Gen. J. R. Maitland
- John Justin as Lt. Geoffrey Heath
- Guy Rolfe as Karram Khan
- Richard Stapley as Lt. Ben Baird
- Murray Matheson as Maj. Ian MacAllister
- Frank DeKova as Ali Nur
- Argentina Brunetti as Lali
- Sujata Rubener as Native Dancer
- Patrick Whyte as Lt. White (uncredited)
- Lal Chand Mehra as Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)
- John Farrow as Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)
- Alberto Morin as Rahim Bey (uncredited)
- Richard Peel as Sgt. Fowler (uncredited)
- Bhogwan Singh as Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)
- Gavin Muir as Maj. Lee - Doctor (uncredited)
- Art Felix as Soldier (uncredited)
Crew
- Henry King · Director
- Ivan Goff · Writer
- Ben Roberts · Writer
- Harry Kleiner · Writer
- Talbot Mundy · Writer
- Frank P. Rosenberg · Producer
- Bernard Herrmann · Composer
- Leon Shamroy · Cinematographer
- Barbara McLean · Editor