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.
Tyrone Power
as Capt. Alan King
Terry Moore
as Susan Maitland
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 De Kova
as Ali Nur
Argentina Brunetti
as Lali
Sujata Rubener
as Native Dancer
Patrick Whyte
as Lt. White (uncredited)
Lal Chand Mehra
as Tribal Chieftain (uncredited)
