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High Adventure: King of the Khyber Rifles

BBC One
on BBC One London

Tonight's presentation in this season of feature films with action, spectacle, and excitement
[Starring] Tyrone Power with Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, Guy Rolfe

After a hundred years of British rule in India, the garrison post of Peshawar is threatened by a tribal revolt.
Tyrone Power plays a young army captain who is given command of the Khyber Rifles with orders to train them into an efficient fighting force. But he is half-Indian - and immediately he faces the problems of prejudice from his fellow officers...
(Philip Jenkinson: page 14)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Ivan Goff
Screenplay:
Ben Roberts
From a story by:
Harry Kleiner
Based on the novel by:
Talbot Mundy
Producer:
Frank P. Rosenberg
Director:
Henry King
Captain King:
Tyrone Power
Susan Maitland:
Terry Moore
General Maitland:
Michael Rennie
Kurram Khan:
Guy Rolfe
Lt Heath:
John Justin
Lt Baird:
Richard Stapley
Source: Radio Times

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