Release Year: 1953
Release Date: Thu Mar 18 1954
Runtime: 100 minutes
Filmed In Color
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Filming Locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine
Studio: 20th Century-Fox
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Actors: Jerado Decordovier (as Soldier), Karam Dhaliwal (as Pal-Singh), John Farrow (as Cpl. Stuart), Art Felix (as Soldier), Naji Gabbay (as Servant), Yeghishe Harout (as Tribal Chieftain), Ramsay Hill (as Cavalry Officer), Aram Katcher (as Napur), George Keymas (as Afridi Horseman), Hassan Khayyam (as Mullah), George Khoury (as Afridi Horseman), Frank Lackteen (as Ahmed), Alan Lee (as Ranchid), Lal Chand Mehra (as Tribal Chieftain), Alberto Morin (as Rahim Bey), Gavin Muir (as Maj. Lee – Doctor), Richard Peel (as Sgt. Fowler), Joe Sawaya (as Tribal Chieftain), Sam Scar (as Tribal Chieftain), Bhogwan Singh (as Tribal Chieftain), Stephen Soldi (as Villager), Kalu K. Sonkur (as Afridi Villager), Norman Stevans (as Party Guest), Bert Stevens (as Officer), Gilchrist Stuart (as Officer of the Week), Jack Tornek (as Soldier), Aly Wassil (as Raschild), Patrick Whyte (as Lt. White), William Wilkerson (as Afridi Horseman)
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Plot: Filmed in Technicolor and presented in CinemaScope. 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…
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Sources: Museum Of Western Film History Archives, IMDb