Film

King of the Khyber Rifles

1953 · 1h 40m · Adventure · Drama · Romance

GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA!

IMDb

6.3

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.

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

Sujata Rubener

Native Dancer

Patrick Whyte

Lt. White (uncredited)

Lal Chand Mehra

Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)

John Farrow

Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)

Alberto Morin

Rahim Bey (uncredited)

Richard Peel

Sgt. Fowler (uncredited)

Stephen Soldi

Villager (uncredited)

• Henry KingDirector
• Ivan GoffScreenplay
• Ben RobertsScreenplay
• Harry KleinerStory
• Talbot MundyNovel
• Frank P. RosenbergProducer
• Leon ShamroyDirector of Photography
• Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
• Barbara McLeanEditor

Release date

December 23, 1953

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Genres

Adventure, Drama, Romance

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