King of the Khyber Rifles
23/12/1953
2h



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
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)


Bhogwan Singh
Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)


Gavin Muir
Maj. Lee - Doctor (uncredited)


Jack Tornek
Soldier (uncredited)
Art Felix
Soldier (uncredited)
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