Tunes of Glory is a 1960 film directed by Ronald Neame, based on the novel by James Kennaway, who also wrote the screenplay, centering on events in a Scottish Highland military barracks in the period following World War II. It stars Alec Guinness and John Mills, and features Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Susannah York, Duncan MacRae and Gordon Jackson.
The film opens in the officer’s mess of a Scottish battalion in the early post-war era....
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Tunes of Glory is a 1960 film directed by Ronald Neame, based on the novel by James Kennaway, who also wrote the screenplay, centering on events in a Scottish Highland military barracks in the period following World War II. It stars Alec Guinness and John Mills, and features Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Susannah York, Duncan MacRae and Gordon Jackson.
The film opens in the officer’s mess of a Scottish battalion in the early post-war era. Major Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) announces that this will be his last day as Commanding Officer before Colonel Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives to take over. Sinclair had been in command since their colonel was killed in action during World War II, leading the battalion for the rest of the war, but Barrow is considered by Brigade HQ to be a more appropriate peacetime commanding officer.
Barrow arrives early, and observes the men dancing rowdily. Barrow and Sinclair briefly swap their respective military backgrounds, Sinclair had joined as...
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