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- Based on the novel by James Kennaway and featuring flawless performances by Guinness and Mills, TUNES OF GLORY uses the rigid stratification of military life to comment on the institutional contradictions and class hierarchies of English society, making for an unexpectedly moving drama.
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Tunes of Glory is a 1960 British drama film directed by Ronald Neame, starring Alec Guinness and John Mills, featuring Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser, Duncan MacRae, Gordon Jackson and Susannah York. [2] It is based on the 1956 novel and screenplay by James Kennaway.
Jun 9, 2021 · The screenplay by James Kennaway was based on his novel of the same name. Kennaway had served as an officer in a Highland regiment after World War II. A promising career as a writer was cut short by his death from a heart attack at the age of 40.
May 1, 2021 · Hitchcock called Tunes of Glory “one of the best films ever made,” but, curiously, the film rarely finds a place in the established canon of great British films. The film came too late to be part of the spate of popular 1950s British war films, and was too dark to be part of that genre.
Two years after The Horse’s Mouth, in 1960, director Ronald Neame cast Alec Guinness in his film, Tunes of Glory, based on a book by James Kennaway. The story concerns the battle for control of a peace-time Scottish battalion and the hearts and minds of its men between two colonels: temporary commander Jock Sinclair and his replacement, Basil ...
Based on the novel by James Kennaway and featuring flawless performances by Guinness and Mills, Tunes of Glory uses the rigid stratification of military life to comment on the institutional contradictions and class hierarchies of English society, making for an unexpectedly moving drama.
- Maj. Jock Sinclair, DSO MM
Tunes of Glory premiered in 1960, when the rising British New Wave was making cinematic news. Unlike such fresh talents as Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz, the somewhat older Neame already had a long track record as a cinematographer and a sizable one as a director.
Tunes of Glory. Directed by Ronald Neame • 1960 • United Kingdom. Starring Alec Guinness, John Mills. In Ronald Neame’s TUNES OF GLORY, the incomparable Alec Guinness plays Jock Sinclair—a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion.
