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Tunes of Glory (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1960 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Ronald Neame

Written By:
James Kennaway

Actors:
Alec Guinness ..... Major Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.
John Mills ..... Lt. Col. Basil Barrow
Dennis Price ..... Major Charles 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 Major Maclean
Percy Herbert ..... R.S.M. Riddick
Allan Cuthbertson ..... Capt. Eric Simpson
Paul Whitsun-Jones ..... Major 'Dusty' Miller
Gerald Harper ..... Major Hugo Macmillan
Richard Leech ..... Captain Alec Rattray
Peter McEnery ..... 2nd Lt. David Mackinnon
Keith Faulkner ..... Piper Adam

Synopsis:

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the regiment has returned to Scotland, and a new commanding officer is to be appointed. Jock's own cleverness is pitted against his new CO, his daughter, his girlfriend, and the other officers in the Mess.

This is the story of a conflict between two senior officers in the cloistered environment of a Scottish military regiment. Major Jock Sinclair has been the acting Colonel of the Regiment for a lengthy period of time. He is admired and respected by officers and men alike and there is a general assumption that he will be made their commanding officer. To everyone's surprise, they learn that Lt. Colonel Basil Barrow has been named to the post. Although a member of the Regiment, Barrow left as a young subaltern, made his career in staff functions and is basically unknown. Barrow is a strict disciplinarian compared to Sinclair's easygoing approach and as he tries to impose his own style of leadership on his command, he struggles to gain the loyalty of his officers, particularly that of Sinclair who bristles at being a second-in-command with little to do. A final confrontation between the two men leads to tragedy for both of them.

Major Jock Sinclair is the Acting Colonel of his regiment in the aftermath of WWII. Expecting to be posted as the permanent CO, he is disillusioned to learn that another officer (one who, unlike himself, did not rise from the ranks). Jock Sinclair begins a social and psychological campaign against the new Colonel, with tragic results for both.

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