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King of the Khyber Rifles

5.7 100 mins Adventure   Drama   Romance   1953
20th Century Fox  
Director(s): Henry King

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.

Casts of King of the Khyber Rifles

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 Wyler

as Lt. Ben Baird

Murray Matheson

as Maj. Ian MacAllister

Frank De Kova

as Ali Nur

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)

Stephen Soldi

as Villager (uncredited)

Bhogwan Singh

as Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)

Gavin Muir

as Maj. Lee - Doctor (uncredited)

Jack Tornek

as Soldier (uncredited)

Art Felix

as Soldier (uncredited)

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