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King of the Khyber Rifles

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{{Infobox film | name = King of the Khyber Rifles | image = File:King of the Khyber Rifles.jpg | caption = | director = Henry King | producer = Frank P. Rosenberg | based_on = | writer = Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts (screenplay)Harry Kleiner (story) | starring = Tyrone PowerTerry Moore | music = Bernard Herrmann | cinematography = Leon Shamroy | editing = Barbara McLean | distributor = Twentieth Century Fox | released = | runtime = 100 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $2,190,000 | gross = $2.6 million (US rentals); $3.5 million (foreign rentals)<ref>Daily Variety, November 9, 1955, p. 4</ref> }}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. Plot In 1857, freshly-arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, survives an attack on his escort to his North-West Frontier Province garrison near the Khyber Pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. King was born locally and speaks Pashto. As soon as his fellow officers learn that his mother was a native Muslim (which got his parents disowned even by their own families), he encounters prejudiced discrimination, including Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath moving out of their quarters. Brigadier General J. R. Maitland, whose policy is full equality among whites, learns that King knew Karram Khan as a boy and charges him with training and commanding the native cavalry. The general's daughter, Susan Maitland, takes a fancy to Alan, and falls in love, but the general decides to send her home to England after a kidnap attempt which was foiled by King. King volunteers to engage Karram Khan, the only man who can bring the normally divided local tribes together in revolt, pretending to have deserted. Cast Tyrone Power as Captain Alan King Terry Moore as Susan Maitland Michael Rennie as Brigadier Gen. J. R.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named King of the Khyber Rifles: 1916 novel by Talbot Mundy

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{{Infobox film | name = King of the Khyber Rifles | image = File:King of the Khyber Rifles.jpg | caption = | director = Henry King | producer = Frank P. Rosenberg | based_on = | writer = Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts (screenplay)Harry Kleiner (story) | starring = Tyrone PowerTerry Moore | music = Bernard Herrmann | cinematography = Leon Shamroy | editing = Barbara McLean | distributor = Twentieth Century Fox | released = | runtime = 100 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $2,190,000 | gross = $2.6 million (US rentals); $3.5 million (foreign rentals)<ref>Daily Variety, November 9, 1955, p. 4</ref> }}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. Plot In 1857, freshly-arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, survives an attack on his escort to his North-West Frontier Province garrison near the Khyber Pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. King was born locally and speaks Pashto. As soon as his fellow officers learn that his mother was a native Muslim (which got his parents disowned even by their own families), he encounters prejudiced discrimination, including Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath moving out of their quarters. Brigadier General J. R. Maitland, whose policy is full equality among whites, learns that King knew Karram Khan as a boy and charges him with training and commanding the native cavalry. The general's daughter, Susan Maitland, takes a fancy to Alan, and falls in love, but the general decides to send her home to England after a kidnap attempt which was foiled by King. King volunteers to engage Karram Khan, the only man who can bring the normally divided local tribes together in revolt, pretending to have deserted. Cast Tyrone Power as Captain Alan King Terry Moore as Susan Maitland Michael Rennie as Brigadier Gen. J. R.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).