Fiction
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PUBLISHED
©1960
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1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #225
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1960
Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man. He expects loyalty and respect from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion from a traditional military family enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men
Based on the novel by James Kennaway
Special features: new high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound enhanced; new video interview with director Ronald Neame; exclusive new audio interview with actor Sir John Mills; theatrical trailer; new essay by acclaimed film critic and historian Robert Murphy
Director of photography, Arthur Ibbetson ; editor, Anne V. Coates ; original music, Malcolm Arnold ; production designer, Wilfred Shingleton
Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Susannah York, Gordon Jackson, Duncan Macrae, Percy Herbert
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD, Region 1, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono, RSDL dual-layer
Closed-captioned