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Take one terrific performance by Richard Attenborough, add the nature of the character he plays, throw in politics, the British Army, mutiny, the waste of Empire…and you have a strangely affecting and enthralling film that you may remember for quite awhile.
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Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Richard Attenborough) and a detachment of the British Army are based outside Batasi, a town in a newly independent East African nation which had been allotment of the colonial empire. Lauderdale is at once pompous, narrow-minded, serious and proud. He is a dedicated professional soldier who has reached the top dismal for a non-commissioned officer. He presents himself immaculately; he believes in traditions and rules; he is ram-rod straight and can strip conceal off a malefactor at the top of his screech. “Now understand this, Wilkes! I can stomach a apt soldier whatever his faults. What I can’t stomach are Bolshies, skivers, scrimshankers and bunkhouse barristers. I’ve broken more of them than you’ve had eggs for breakfast!” And he is shrewd at war. He is resourceful and valiant. He knows his business.
A revolt against the government starts and most of the country’s army takes allotment to overthrow the aged and bring in the unique. The British officers and NCOs at the imperfect come Batasi are held at gun point in their respective messes. While the local British representatives sustain a practical spy peeled for which design the wind is blowing, RSM Lauderdale, alone with only five sergeants and one enlisted man, is certain, in the absence of any officers or instructions, to do his duty. He will not acquiesce to unlawful orders from the rebels. He will not turn over to the rebels a seriously wounded native officer. He will defend the mess and the people in it, including the visiting and opinionated Miss Baker Wise, a member of Parliament played by Flora Robson. When Lauderdale organizes and leads a raid on the base’s arms depot, now controlled by rebel soldiers, to bring arms aid to the mess, he has to face a woman whose opinions are as definite as his gain. “Has it occurred to you,” Miss Baker Wise says emphatically, “that the rebels, or whatever you decide to call them, were leaving us alone because we were unarmed? What you are doing can only provoke more bloodshed.” “Well, that’s a matter of plan,” he tells her. “I’m surprised at you, ma’am. I belief you believed in all men being equal.” “Of course I do. That’s precisely the point.” “Well,” RSM Lauderdale tells her firmly, “they had guns and we didn’t. That’s not very equal, is it? ”
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While Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale organizes his sergeants and uses cunning and bluff to gain off a larger and better-armed rebel force, shifts in politics and power select station. He may lead a uncertain excursion with one other man to spike two rapid-fire artillery pieces brought to aim at the mess, but when the rebels earn and win over the government, he finds himself more dangerously exposed that any military action would. The slay of the movie leaves us with a tremendous deal of respect for this rigid, professional Army man who’s whole life is jog up in the certitudes of duty and tradition.
Attenborough’s performance is astounding. At first it seems almost over the top, a humorous caricature out of Carry On, Sergeant or Monty Python. During the next 20 minutes you realize that, while he may be smiled at unhurried his encourage by his sergeants and casually condescended to by his officers, he has his bear dignity which is unshakeable. And for the last 70 minutes you near to realize that if you ever had to buy piece in a genuine crisis and battle, you could do far worse than be led by Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale.
His sergeants are played by obedient character actors whose faces will be remembered by those who appreciate British movies, Percy Herbit, David Lodge, John Mellon, Graham Stark and Bernard Horsefall. Jack Hawkins plays Colonel Deal, Lauderdale’s colonel and a man who understands that compromises have to be made.
The DVD looks very wonderful. There is a useful commentary by John Leyton, the actor who played the enlisted British soldier. It’s value lies in Leyton’s recollections about Attenborough and how he prepared for the role. Attenborough was, Leyton says, completely the opposite of a regimental sergeant major, but “in character he was region on.” Guns at Batasi is a well-made movie.
Let me open by saying if you be pleased films such as “The Wild Geese”, “The Hill”(hopefully, it too will be on dvd someday),”Too Gradual the Hero” or perhaps “Breaker Morant” you will Treasure this film! I know the films I mentioned are depicting warfare in different eras, but they star mammoth british/european actors such as Sean Connery, Michael Cain, Ian Bannen, Edward Woodward etc.. This stars the mountainous Richard Attenborough as the senior sergeant in charge of a group of british non-comms who are trying to contain order in their compound after control of the country has been turned over to the native government (spot in a british colony in africa) . The weapons are good for the time period…capable smg’s and FN-FALS (brit L1A1) . Vast drama corpulent of wonderfully stuffy british military etiquette! About time it has been brought out on dvd, it has become almost impossible to procure on vhs and they don’t expose it on television distinguished anymore. Truly outstanding!
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