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Tunes of glory / United Artists presents ; a Colin Lesslie production ; screenplay by James Kennaway ; produced by Colin Lesslie ; director, Ronald Neame ; Knightsbridge Films.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3097DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 225.Publisher: [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 videodisc (107 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681436692
  • 1681436698
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Kennaway, James, 1928-1968. Tunes of glory
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Arthur Ibbetson ; editor, Anne V. Coates ; music, Malcolm Arnold ; production designer, Wilfred Shingleton.
Cast: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Susannah York, Gordon Jackson, Duncan Macrae, Percy Herbert.Summary: Jock Sinclair is 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, 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD DRAMA Tunes of Available 33111009527736
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Jock Sinclair is 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, 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.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.66:1); monaural.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Susannah York, Gordon Jackson, Duncan Macrae, Percy Herbert.

Director of photography, Arthur Ibbetson ; editor, Anne V. Coates ; music, Malcolm Arnold ; production designer, Wilfred Shingleton.

Title from title frame.

Based on the novel by James Kennaway.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.

Wide screen (1.66:1).

Jock Sinclair is 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, 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.

Special edition features: interview from 2003 with director Ronald Neame ; audio interview from 2002 with actor John Mills ; television interview from 1973 with actor Alec Guinness ; trailer ; an essay by film scholar Robert Murphy.

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