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    King of the Khyber Rifles is a novel by British writer Talbot Mundy. Captain Athelstan King is a secret agent for the British Raj at the beginning of...
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  • The Khyber Rifles are a paramilitary regiment, forming part of the Pakistani Frontier Corps Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North). The Rifles are tasked with defending...
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  • King of the Khyber Rifles is a 1953 adventure film directed by Henry King and starring Tyrone Power and Terry Moore. The film shares its title but little...
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  • Talbot Mundy (category Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity)
    pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines. Mundy...
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    Nautch (category Performers of Indian classical dance)
    2004. Yasmini in "King, of the Khyber Rifles" by Talbot Mundy ISBN 0854681779 Tom Stacey 1972 orig 1917 hb, p16 Nautch Girls of the Raj, Mumbai Mirror...
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    Henry's Full House (1952) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) Untamed (1955) Love...
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    her the female lead in Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953), the second film in CinemaScope and a big hit. Also popular was King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)...
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    John Justin (category Alumni of RADA)
    in The Village (1953), a Swiss film; Melba (1953), a biopic; King of the Khyber Rifles (1954), a Hollywood film with Tyrone Power for 20th Century Fox;...
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    written by James Kevin McGuinness and based on the 1916 novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy. The film features an uncredited 21-year-old John...
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    encountered. In the United States, a Kalashnikov-style rifle composed of a mix of parts from various AK-style rifles is sometimes referred to as a Khyber Pass AK...
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    Mundy, a contemporary of Kipling, makes use of the term in King of the Khyber Rifles to describe a cuckold, "And what kind of man must Rewa Gunga be...
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  • feature films during his career. At the height of his career, exhibitors voted Scott among the most popular stars in the country: 1949 - 12th (US) 1950 -...
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    Michael Rennie (category British expatriate male actors in the United States)
    Rennie's place on the Fox lot as their "resident British star". Rennie supported Tyrone Power once more in King of the Khyber Rifles (1954), as a brigadier...
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  • brig (uncredited) King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) - Afridi Horseman (uncredited) Bait (1954) - Chuck Drums of Tahiti (1954) - Angelo The Raid (1954) - Captain...
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  • Richard Stapley (category British expatriate male actors in the United States)
    Charles Laughton; 1953's King of the Khyber Rifles, which starred Tyrone Power; Charge of the Lancers with Paulette Goddard; and The Iron Glove with Robert...
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    Jesse James, The Mark of Zorro and Blood and Sand. His least favorite were Day-Time Wife, Prince of Foxes, Captain from Castile and Rose of Washington Square...
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    The Khyber Pass (Urdu: درۂ خیبر; Pashto: د خيبر دره, romanized: De Xēber Dara, lit. 'Valley of Khyber' [d̪ə xebər d̪ara]) is a mountain pass in the Khyber...
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    Tyrone Power (category United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II)
    with Raymond Massey and Anne Baxter. In the same year, Power filmed King of The Khyber Rifles, a depiction of India in 1857, with Terry Moore and Michael...
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    Guy Rolfe (category Actors from the London Borough of Brent)
    (1953) – Kasseim Operation Diplomat (1953) – Mr. Fenton King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) – Karram Khan Dance Little Lady (1954) – Dr. John Ransome It's...
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  • troops on the Afghanistan border. It was distributed by United Artists as a second feature. The film is similar in theme to King of the Khyber Rifles starring...
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    The Myrna Loy filmography presents a chronology of the motion picture and television appearances of actress Myrna Loy. All of Loy's films released prior...
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  • back to the time of King Arthur by her uncle's time machine. Front cover story. June was designed by Pett as a younger, more wholesome version of his Daily...
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    probably best known for playing Franz, the butler of Captain Von Trapp in Academy Award winning film The Sound of Music. He was sometimes credited as Gil...
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  • Frank de Kova (category American people of Italian descent)
    Eagle", chief of the Hekawi tribe, on the western comedy F Troop (1965–1967). He also guest-starred in the ABC/Warner Brothers drama, The Roaring 20s....
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  • Louis Calhern, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr The Kidnappers, starring Jon Whiteley – (GB) King of the Khyber Rifles, starring Tyrone Power Kiss Me Kate, starring...
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  • conductor. The Sun Also Rises (1957) – Conductor The Bravados (1958) Bernard Herrmann The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) Tender...
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    Murray Matheson (category Australian emigrants to the United States)
    played the clown in the classic The Twilight Zone episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit". He made guest appearances in two 1964 episodes of CBS's...
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  • Joseph Clement Coll (category Place of birth missing)
    Talbot Mundy's King of the Khyber Rifles and Sax Rohmer's The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu were widely reprinted for many years. Coll died in 1921 of appendicitis...
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  • Ramsay Hill (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and the title character in the NBC University Theatre production of Eric Knight's short story "The Old General." Ramsay-Hill...
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  • Harry Kleiner (category Soviet emigrants to the United States)
    (1953) King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) Carmen Jones (1954) House of Bamboo (1955) The Violent Men (1955) Cry Tough (1957) - also producer The Rabbit...
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