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King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

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King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5000 kbps | 4.0Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #2 Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: Spanish
01:36:00 | USA | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A half-caste British officer in 19th-century India battles the prejudices of both his Army colleagues and the local populace while trying to help put down a rebellion led by a greedy local ruler.

Director: Henry King
Cast: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin, Guy Rolfe, Richard Wyler, Murray Matheson, Frank DeKova, Argentina Brunetti, Sujata Rubener, Mohinder Bedi, Dorothy Bonnefin, Jimmie Booth, Harry Carter, Maurice Colbourne, David Cota, Tom Cound, Karam Dhaliwal, John Farrow, Naji Gabbay, Yeghishe Harout, Ramsay Hill, Aram Katcher, George Keymas, Hassan Khayyam, George Khoury, Frank Lackteen, Alan Lee, Lal Chand Mehra, Alberto Morin

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)


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. Brigadier general J. R. Maitland, whose policy is full equality among whites, learns King knew Kurrum Khan as a boy and charges him with training and commanding native cavalry, which comes along fine. The general's egalitarian daughter Susan Maitland takes a fancy to King, even falls…

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King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)