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Guns at Batasi is a 1964 British drama film set in an African colonial outpost during the post-colonial era. It stars Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson and Mia Farrow, and was directed by John Guillermin.
Experience the explosive drama of 'Guns at Batasi' (1964), a riveting war film directed by John Guillermin.
Guns at Batasi: Directed by John Guillermin. 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.
- John Guillermin
- 3 min
The East African nation of Batasi is tearing apart at the seams, and a group of British soldiers are caught in the middle. As fighting breaks out between two rival factions in the former British...
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- Richard Attenborough
- John Guillermin
- War, Drama
Apr 6, 2018 · The original trailer in high definition of Guns at Batasi and directed by John Guillermin and starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton...
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Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough) is a by-the-book, strict disciplinarian, who seems like an anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the modern British commonwealth.
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Despite its closing image of an undaunted Lauderdale, Guns at Batasi is imbued with sadness for a lost world, and shows the British army profoundly affected by decolonisation — its capacity for action eroded to the point of immobility, its authority diminished, and its soldiers unhonoured.
