
King of the Khyber Rifles
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.
Top Billed Cast

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
Featured Crew
Ben Roberts
Screenplay
Ivan Goff
Screenplay

Bernard Herrmann
Original Music Composer
Talbot Mundy
Novel

Henry King
Director
Frank P. Rosenberg
Producer
Harry Kleiner
Story

Barbara McLean
Editor

Ben Nye
Makeup Artist
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Henry Weinberger
Assistant Director
Walter M. Scott
Set Decoration