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| Year: | 1953 |
| Rating: | 6.2(245) |
| Listed in: | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
| Directed by: | Henry King |
| Actors: | Tyrone Power Michael Rennie John Justin Guy Rolfe Richard Wyler Terry Moore |
| "GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA! (original print ad - all caps)" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Henry King | |
| Actors | |
| Tyrone Power | as Capt. Alan King |
| Michael Rennie | as Brig. Gen. J. R. Maitland |
| John Justin | as Lt. Geoffrey Heath |
| Guy Rolfe | as Karram Khan |
| Richard Wyler | as Lt. Ben Baird |
| Murray Matheson | as Maj. Ian MacAllister |
| Frank DeKova | as Ali Nur |
| Mohinder Bedi | as Servant |
| Harry Carter | as Afridi Horseman |
| Maurice Colbourne | as Hamid Bahri |
| David Cota | as Singer |
| Tom Cound | as Capt. Rogers |
| Karam Dhaliwal | as Pal-Singh |
| John Farrow | as Cpl. Stuart |
| 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 Ishmael, Gen. Maitland's punkawallah |
| 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 |
| Gilchrist Stuart | as Officer of the Week |
| Aly Wassil | as Raschild |
| Patrick Whyte | as Lt. White |
| Billy Wilkerson | as Afridi Horseman |
| Actresses | |
| Terry Moore | as Susan Maitland |
| Argentina Brunetti | as Lali |
| Sujata | as Native Dancer |
| Dorothy Bonnefin | as Bit Role |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Plot: | 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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| Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Near the end of the film, during the nighttime attack on Karram Khan's camp by King and his troops, the explosions that destroy the rebel arsenal were apparently more violent than was expected, as the "corpse" of a rebel killed in the fighting near the arsenal jumps up and runs off camera. |
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