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
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
Henry King
Director
Murray Matheson
Maj. Ian MacAllister
Ivan Goff
Writer
Frank De Kova
Ali Nur
Ben Roberts
Writer
Argentina Brunetti
Lali
Harry Kleiner
Writer
Sujata Rubener
Native Dancer
Talbot Mundy
Writer
Patrick Whyte
Lt. White (uncredited) / Technical Advisor
Frank P. Rosenberg
Producer
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)
Bernard Herrmann
Original Music Composer
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Roger Heman Sr.
Sound
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration
Barbara McLean
Editor
Travilla
Costume Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 23, 1953
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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.