King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
1h 40m
Running Time
December 23, 1953Release Date
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
1h 40m
Running Time
December 23, 1953Release Date
Network & Production Companies


Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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) / Technical Advisor

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)

Henry King
Director

Harry Kleiner
Story

Talbot Mundy
Novel

Ivan Goff
Screenplay

Ben Roberts
Screenplay

Frank P. Rosenberg
Producer

Bernard Herrmann
Original Music Composer

Barbara McLean
Editor

Maurice Ransford
Art Direction

Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction

Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration

Fred J. Rode
Set Decoration
Media.

Details.
Release DateDecember 23, 1953
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
muslim
general
india
battle
Wiki.
King of the Khyber Rifles is a 1953 adventure film directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power and Terry Moore. The film shares its title but little else with the novel King of the Khyber Rifles (1916) by Talbot Mundy. This novel was also the basis for John Ford's The Black Watch (1929). The Khyber Pass scenes were shot in the Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California. Released by 20th Century Fox, the film was one of the first shot in Technicolor CinemaScope.
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