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    Guns at Batasi (1964)

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    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.

    The actor spent a year trailing an RSM in preparation for the role, and it paid rich dividends. Ferociously steely and ultra-officious, Attenborough is utterly convincing as Lauderdale, a man whose career is his very reason for being.

    The coup d’état that threatens his position brings out the best and worst in the man.

    Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale
    Richard Attenborough
    Colonel Deal
    Jack Hawkins
    Miss Barker-Wise
    Flora Robson
    Private Wilkes
    John Leyton
    Karen Eriksson
    Mia Farrow
    Fletcher
    Cecil Parker
    Lieut. Boniface
    Errol John
    Sgt. ‘Dodger’ Brown
    Graham Stark
    Captain Abraham
    Earl Cameron
    Colour Sgt. Ben Parkin
    Percy Herbert
    Sgt. ‘Muscles’ Dunn
    David Lodge
    Sgt. ‘Schoolie’ Prideaux
    Bernard Horsfall
    Sgt. ‘Aussie’ Drake
    John Meillon
    Corporal Abou
    Horace James
    Captain
    Patrick Holt

    Director
    John Guillermin

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