Tunes of Glory is a 1960 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame, based on the 1956 novel and screenplay by James Kennaway. It stars Alec Guinness and John Mills, and features Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Susannah York, Duncan MacRae and Gordon Jackson. The film, set in 1948, opens in an officers’ mess of an unnamed Highland Regiment.
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Tunes of Glory is a 1960 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame, based on the 1956 novel and screenplay by James Kennaway. It stars Alec Guinness and John Mills, and features Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Susannah York, Duncan MacRae and Gordon Jackson. The film, set in 1948, opens in an officers’ mess of an unnamed Highland Regiment. Acting Lieutenant Colonel Jock Sinclair announces this will be his last day as commanding officer. The title refers to the bagpiping that accompanies every important action of the regiment. The original pipe music was composed by Malcolm Arnold, who also wrote the music for The Bridge on the River Kwai. The film was generally well received by critics, the acting in particular garnering praise. Kennaway’s screenplay was nominated for an Oscar, and the novel was a bestseller in the UK in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was released in UK cinemas on 25 November 1960. It is now available in US cinemas and on Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S.
and Canada. For more information on the film visit www.tunesofglory.co.uk or go to the official website of the British Film Institute (BFI) or the BFI website (http://www.bbi.org.uk/film/tunes-of-glory-and-the-british-film-industry.html#storylink=cpy). The film is a dark psychological drama focusing on events in a wintry Scottish Highland regimental barracks in the period following the Second World War. The hard-drinking Sinclair, who is still gazetted as a major despite being in command since the battalion’s last full colonel was killed in action during the North African campaign, is to be replaced by the teetotal lieutenant colonel, Basil Barrow. Although Sinclair led the battalion through the remainder of the war, Barrow is deeply psychologically scarred after being tortured by the Japanese, which he does not tell Sinclair who not-so-privately resents his replacement by a’stupid wee man’
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