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In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.


“Colonel Jock Sinclair drank with his men... and sang and danced with them... until that day, when a shot rang out... and he stood alone!”
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.

Alec Guinness
Maj. Jock Sinclair, D.S.O., M.M.

John Mills
Lt. Col. Basil Barrow (Battalion Commander)

Dennis Price
Maj. Charles 'Charlie' Scott, M.C. (Battalion Executive Officer)

Kay Walsh
Mary Titterington

Susannah York
Morag Sinclair

John Fraser
Cpl. Piper Ian Fraser

Gordon Jackson
Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. (Battalion Adjutant)

Duncan Macrae
Pipe Maj. Duncan MacLean

Percy Herbert
RSM Riddick

Allan Cuthbertson
Capt. Eric Simpson
Tunes of Glory is a drama film released in 1960 exploring themes of based on novel or book, scotland, command, military service, discipline, post war. Directed by Ronald Neame, it stars Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price. Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
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