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Saturday Cinema: King of the Khyber Rifles

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Starring Tyrone Power.
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...

Contributors

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
Maj MacAllister:
Murray Matheson
Ali Nur:
Frank de Kova
Source: Radio Times

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