Tunes of Glory
Colonel Jock Sinclair drank with his men... and sang and danced with them... until that day, when a shot rang out... and he stood alone!
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9/17/1960Runtime
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Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
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A taut psychological struggle between two military men whose clashing philosophies and wounded egos threaten to destroy everything around them. It's a character study dressed in khaki, where charm and authority become weapons.
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Alec Guinness
Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
John Mills
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
Dennis Price
Maj. Charles 'Charlie' Scott, M.C. (Battalion Executive Officer)
Kay Walsh
Mary Titterington
Susannah York
Morag Sinclair
John Fraser
Cpl. Piper Ian Fraser
Gordon Jackson
Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. (Battalion Adjutant)
Duncan Macrae
Pipe Maj. Duncan MacLean
Percy Herbert
RSM Riddick
Allan Cuthbertson
Capt. Eric Simpson
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Gerald Harper
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