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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.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 032 794 DVD + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 225.
- Criterion collection ; 225
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennaway, James, 1928-1968--Film adaptations.
- Kennaway, James.
- Kennaway, James, 1928-1968.
- Armed Forces--Officers--Drama.
- Armed Forces.
- Armed Forces--Officers.
- Scotland--Drama.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Motion pictures, Great Britain.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- color
- stamping
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby audio monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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.
- Participant:
- Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Susannah York, Gordon Jackson, Duncan Macrae, Percy Herbert.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Arthur Ibbetson ; editor, Anne V. Coates ; music, Malcolm Arnold ; production designer, Wilfred Shingleton.
- Notes:
- Title from title frame.
- Based on Tunes of glory / by James Kennaway.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
- Wide screen (1.66:1).
- 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 Guiness ; trailer ; an essay by film scholar Robert Murphy (on insert).
- ISBN:
- 9781681436692
- 1681436698
- OCLC:
- 1122629646
- Publisher Number:
- 715515239011
- CC3097DDVD The Criterion Collection
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