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A group of veteran British NCOs, headed by martinet Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Richard Attenborough), becomes entangled with a coup in an unnamed African state, recently-independent and dogged by political intrigue.
With Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton. Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.
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- Drama, History, War
- John Guillermin
- 1964-09-25
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For the first time in the history of my country, Sergeant Major, it is the African who is putting the shell into the breech and giving the order to fire! RSM Lauderdale : Really, Mr. Boniface? I don't think I've ever come across a misfit of your size and quality before.
C.M. Pennington-Richards. Leo Marks. Marshall Pugh. An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Set during the last days of the British Empire, Richard Attenborough plays Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale, the martinet of an East African military outpost in the middle of the transfer of authority between the white overlords and a newly independent African nation on the eve that native revolutionists start a reign of terror.
Stranded at the airport because of the rebellion, British Private Wilkes and a Swedish United Nations employee, Karen Eriksson, go to the all-white sergeants' mess, administered by Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale, a staunch old-line British career soldier.
