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Tunes of Glory (1960)

NR ★ 7.1/10 106 min Drama United Kingdom English
Director: Ronald Neame
Novel: James Kennaway
Screenplay by: James Kennaway
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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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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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Alec Guinness
Alec Guinness Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
John Mills
John Mills Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)
Dennis Price
Dennis Price Maj. Charles 'Charlie' Scott, M.C. (Battalion Executive Officer)
Kay Walsh
Kay Walsh Mary Titterington
Susannah York
Susannah York Morag Sinclair
John Fraser
John Fraser Cpl. Piper Ian Fraser
Gordon Jackson
Gordon Jackson Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. (Battalion Adjutant)
Duncan Macrae
Duncan Macrae Pipe Maj. Duncan MacLean

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