King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

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Country: USA
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Release: 1954-03-19
Director: Henry King
Writers: Ivan Goff , Ben Roberts , Harry Kleiner , Talbot Mundy
Language: Hindi | English
Stars: Tyrone Power , Terry Moore , Michael Rennie , John Justin , Guy Rolfe , Richard Wyler , Murray Matheson , Frank DeKova , Argentina Brunetti , Sujata Rubener
Runtime: 100 min
Awards: 1 nomination
AKA: Capitaine King (France, French Republic) , A Carga dos Fuzileiros (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , El Capitán King (Venezuela) , Hayber fedaileri (Turkey) , King of the Khyber Rifles (Australia) , Uppror i Indien (Sweden) , Capitaine King (Canada) , Rebelião na Índia (Brazil) , King of the Khyber Rifles (United Kingdom) , Kaptajn King fra Khyber-Riflerne (Denmark) , El capitán King (Spain) , 壮烈カイバー銃隊 (Japan) , Капитан Хайберских стрелков , King of the Khyber Rifles (United States of America) , Kapitein King (Belgium) , Loghoforoi ton Indion (Greece) , La carica dei Kyber (Italy) , King of the Khyber Rifles (Canada) , Der Hauptmann von Peshawar (Austria) , King of the Khyber Rifles , Capitaine King (Belgium) , Der Hauptmann von Peshawar , Kapina Intiassa (Finland) , Capitanul King al puscasilor Kiberi (Romania)
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. 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 in love but the general decides to send her safely home to England after a kidnapped attempt when King saved her. King volunteers to take out Khurram Khan, the only man who can bring the normally dived local tribes together in revolt, pretending to have deserted...
IMDB:tt0045961