Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser. Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Wide screen (1.66:1). Based on the novel by James Kennaway. Special features: interview from 2003 with director Ronald Neame; audio interview from 2002 with actor John Mills; television interview from 1973 with actor Alec Guinness; trailer; an essay by film scholar Robert Murphy.
Summary:
Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclair expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion of a military family, enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men engage in a fierce struggle for control of both the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.
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