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King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) [NR]

Release Date:
December 23, 1953

Original Title:
King of the Khyber Rifles

Alternate Titles:
A Carga Dos Fusileiros
Capitaine King
Der Hauptmann von Peshawar
El capitan King
Hayber fedaileri
Kapina Intiassa
Kaptajn King fra Khyber-Riflerne
La carica dei Kyber
Loghoforoi ton Indion
Rebeliao na India
Uppror i Indien

Genres:
Adventure | Drama | Romance

Production Companies:
20th Century Fox

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12  US: NR 

Runtime: 100

GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA!

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Maurice Ransford
Lyle R. Wheeler

Assistant Director:
Henry Weinberger

Choreographer:
Asoka Rubener

Costume Design:
Travilla

Director:
Henry King

Director of Photography:
Leon Shamroy

Editor:
Barbara McLean

Makeup Artist:
Ben Nye

Novel:
Talbot Mundy

Original Music Composer:
Bernard Herrmann

Producer:
Frank P. Rosenberg

Screenplay:
Ivan Goff
Ben Roberts

Set Decoration:
Walter M. Scott
Fred J. Rode
Paul S. Fox

Sound:
E. Clayton Ward
Roger Heman Sr.

Special Effects:
Ray Kellogg

Story:
Harry Kleiner

Technical Advisor:
Patrick Whyte

Wardrobe Master:
Charles LeMaire

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