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GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA!
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Tyrone PowerCapt. Alan King
Terry MooreSusan Maitland
Michael RennieBrig. Gen. J. R. Maitland
John JustinLt. Geoffrey Heath
Guy RolfeKarram Khan
Richard WylerLt. Ben Baird
Murray MathesonMaj. Ian MacAllister
Frank De KovaAli Nur
Argentina Brunetti
Lal Chand MehraTribal Chieftain (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director
- Henry King
- Screenplay
- Ivan Goff
- Screenplay
- Ben Roberts
- Producer
- Frank P. Rosenberg
- Original Music Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Editor
- Barbara McLean
- Director of Photography
- Leon Shamroy