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King of the Khyber Rifles

1953 · 100 min

A stately old-fashioned adventure that mixes frontier skirmishes with earnest romance and a sincere plea against prejudice.

Directed by: Henry King
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Starring: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie

Tagline: GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA!
Overview: 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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Directed by: Henry King
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Starring: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
loyalty
betrayal
race
war
Places: military
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	5
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	5
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: adventure, drama, romance
Directed by: Henry King
Written by: Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff
Starring: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin, Guy Rolfe, Richard Wyler, Murray Matheson, Frank De Kova
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy
Runtime: 100 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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