King of the Khyber Rifles

King of the Khyber Rifles, 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 …

STARS: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie

100 min | Adventure, Drama, History | 1953 | Color

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Loved it ; but Where's the DVD?
My dad was a RSM (Regimental Sgt. Major) of what we called then the Royal British Marines and are now called just Marines. He'd met and gotten to know some of the men in the 22nd Gurkha Rifle Regiment and remembered them to be; short,tough as nails, and as good a friend as you could ever hope to find. So when I heard the title of this movie I just HAD to see it. I hope this doesn't SPOIL it for anyone;but I'd seen this movie when quite young and I will always remember that scene where the one soldier says to Captain King while drawing his Kukri(Gurkha Knife) from it's sheath: "With these Blades of steel; We will follow you to the death". I can't help but wonder how long those people will stay asleep that should be putting this movie on DVD?

Great film. I lost family members in India back then.
I believe I was with my dad, when we went to a drive-in movie theater to see this. He was in Dacca East India with the USAAF during the war.
The scene midway through the film that still sears my mind's eyes is of the captured British officers and soldiers tied to posts and the Northwest tribesmen riding down the line to hurl lances into their chests, one after the other. As in the case of the shadow of naked Lucy strung up on a scaffold with Comanche arrows in her in The Searchers, I remember the scenes of the executions being much more graphic and at the moment of impact. Censorship is stupid.
On my mother's side, I lost 2 great great great granduncles in the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 in the Cawnpore Massacre. British Indian Army Brigadier Alexander Jack - unfortunately not in command at Cawnpore - had engineered the fall of the heretofore unassailable mountaintop Fort Kangra. His younger brother Andrew, the baby of the family, was just ill-timedly visiting from Australia and reportedly died in screaming agony when a mutineer cannonball took off his legs.
And now we're all back ... still back ... in The Graveyard of Empires on the other side of the Khyber Pass. Strategic stupidity like that cannot be fictionalized.
Despite any shortcoming described by other viewers here, this is indeed a classic film well worth watching.