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John Mills | Lt. Col. Basil Barrow | |
Alec Guinness | Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M. | |
Dennis Price | Maj. Charles 'Charlie' Scott, M.C. | |
Kay Walsh | Mary Titterington | |
John Fraser | Cpl. Piper Ian Fraser | |
Susannah York | Morag Sinclair | |
Gordon Jackson | Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. | |
Duncan Macrae | Pipe Maj. Duncan MacLean | |
Percy Herbert | RSM Riddick | |
Allan Cuthbertson | Capt. Eric Simpson | |
Jameson Clark | ||
James Copeland | ||
Keith Faulkner | ||
Gerald Harper | ||
John Harvey | ||
Paul Whitsun-Jones | Maj. Miller | |
Richard Leech | Capt. Alec Rattray | |
Peter McEnery | 2nd Lt. David MacKinnon | |
Angus Lennie | Orderly Room Clerk | |
Bryan Hulme | Cpl. Drummer | |
Eric Woodburn | Landlord | |
Andrew Downie | Cpl. Waiter | |
Lockwood West | Provost | |
Gwen Nelson | Provost's Wife | |
Robert Arnold | One of the other officers | |
Richard Rudd | One of the other officers | |
John Barcroft | One of the other officers | |
Mark Burns | One of the other officers | |
John Bown | One of the other officers | |
William Young | One of the other officers |
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Producer | Albert Fennell
Colin Lesslie |
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Writer | James Kennaway
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Cinematography | Arthur Ibbetson
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Musician | Malcolm Arnold
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In Ronald Neame's Tunes Of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness inhabits the role of Jock Sinclair-a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man, who expects loyalty and respect from his men. But when Basil Barrow (John Mills, winner of the Best Actor award at the 1960 Venice Film Festival)-an educated, by-the-book scion of a traditional military family-enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men. Based on the novel by James Kennaway and featuring flawless performances by Guinness and Mills, Tunes Of Glory uses the rigidly stratified hierarchy of military life as a jumping off point to examine the institutional contradictions and class divisions of English society, resulting in an unexpectedly moving drama. |
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