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(0)James Kennaway
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The classic Scottish novel made into a movie starring Alec Guinness and John Mills. “[A] brilliant depiction of . . . the male military world” (The List).
Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair is a rough-talking, whisky-drinking soldier’s soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Col. Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in...
Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair is a rough-talking, whisky-drinking soldier’s soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Col. Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in...
Series
Criterion collection volume 225
Pub. Date
©2004, ©1960.
Edition
Widescreen (1.66:first) presentation.
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 225
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
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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