Screenplay:
James KennawayCinematography:
Arthur IbbetsonComposer:
Malcolm ArnoldCast:
Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Susannah York, Gordon Jackson, Peter McEnery, Andrew Keir, Mark Burns, Percy Herbert, Allan Cuthbertson, Lockwood West (more)VOD (2)
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In Ronald Neame’s Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness plays Jock Sinclair—a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclair expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil Barrow (John Mills)—an educated, by-the-book scion of a military family—enters the scene as Sinclair’s replacement, the two men engage in a fierce struggle for control of both 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 rigid stratification of military life to comment on the institutional contradictions and class hierarchies of English society, making for an unexpectedly moving drama. (Criterion)
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![John Barcroft](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/566/161566044_607bc9.jpg)
John Barcroft
UK
Best movies:
Tunes of Glory (1960)
![Frazer Hines](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/593/161593267_3729c8.jpg)
Frazer Hines
UK
Best movies:
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (1983) (TV movie)
The Last Valley (1971)
A King in New York (1957)
![John Harvey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/593/161593444_56e0be.jpg)
John Harvey
UK
Best movies:
The Devil's Disciple (1959)
Sacco and Vanzetti (1971)
Stage Fright (1950)
William Marlowe
UK
Best movies:
Cry Freedom (1987)
Robbery (1967)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Keith Faulkner
USA
Best movies:
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Fred Haggerty
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Andrew Downie
UK
Best movies:
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Two Way Stretch (1960)
Richard Leech
Ireland
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Florence Nightingale (1985) (TV movie)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Fulton Mackay
UK
Best movies:
Tunes of Glory (1960)
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Local Hero (1983)
James Copeland
UK
Best movies:
Tunes of Glory (1960)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
Barry Steele
UK
Best movies:
Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
Reach for the Sky (1956)
The V.I.P.s (1963)