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.
Directed by Henry King
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FeaturetteKing of the Khyber Rifles Prelude by Bernard Herrmann
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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)
Lal Chand Mehra
Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)
John Farrow
Cpl. Stuart (uncredited)
Alberto Morin
Rahim Bey (uncredited)
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