The Black Watch, (King of the Khyber Rifles) (1929)
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In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned to quell a native uprising in the Northern mountains. Unfortunately, soon after arriving, he gets drunk and seemingly kills another officer during a barroom fight. He escapes… More In this early talkie from director John Ford, a Scottish captain and his regiment are sent to India during WW I and assigned to quell a native uprising in the Northern mountains. Unfortunately, soon after arriving, he gets drunk and seemingly kills another officer during a barroom fight. He escapes capture and disappears into the crowd. Now wanted as a renegade, he involves himself with a beautiful but sadistic native princess, a direct descendant of Alexander the Great. He cozies up to her and learns that she is planning to send her troops to attack the British through Khyber pass. Though she correctly suspects that the fugitive soldier is really a spy, she cannot help but fall in love with him, thereby sparing him the usual torture and castration she forces upon other captured British soldiers. Unfortunately her love causes her downfall in the exciting conclusion. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Ford
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
PG,
- In Theaters
- May 22, 1929 Wide
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Cast
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Victor McLaglen
as Capt. Donald Gordon King
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Myrna Loy
as Yasmini
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David Rollins
as Lt. Malcolm King
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Roy D'Arcy
as Rewa Ghunga
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Lumsden Hare
as Colonel of the Black Watch
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Walter Long
as Harrim Bey
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Mitchell Lewis
as Mohammed Khan
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Cyril Chadwick
as Major Twynes
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Claude King
as General in India
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Francis Ford
as Major MacGregor
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David Torrence
as Marechal
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Joseph Diskay
as Muezzin
- Joyzelle Joyner
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David Percy
as Highlanders' Officer
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Frederick Sullivan
as General's Aide
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Richard Travers
as Adjutant
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Randolph Scott
as Bit Part
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Pat Somerset
as Highlanders' Officer
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John Wayne
as Extra
