Richard Attenborough
Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale
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Guns at Batasi is a 1964 British drama film starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton and Mia Farrow. The film is based on the 1962 novel The Siege of Battersea by Robert Holles and was directed by John Guillermin.
A 1964 film starring Richard Attenborough as a strict sergeant major who defends his men in a coup d'etat in Africa. Based on a novel by Leo Marks, the film won a BAFTA and received positive reviews.
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- Drama, History, War
- John Guillermin
- 1964-09-25
Richard Attenborough stars as a stalwart sergeant-major, stationed in a British colony in Africa. When the colony declares its independence, Attenborough is ...
Dec 1, 2023 · 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...
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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 and...
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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...
- War, Drama
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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.
