👏👏👏👏👏 This film is sheer PERFECTION. The story, the script, the casting, the flawless performances, the directing, the editing, the costuming... full marks in every category!! Attenborough... a master of his craft!
Stacy Keach, playing a British character, holds his own in a cast full of excellent British actors (and, Canadian, in the case of Plummer). Outstanding cast!
Excellent movie: plot, cast and the eternal themes of honour, virtue, duty, truth & friendship. Superb story. I miss Michael York and Stacey Keach is mesmerizing in this role. Why can't they make movies like this anymore?
Good cast. One might think that the plot might be predictable, but there are interesting twists. Surprisingly low-key, but intense, psychological drama.
Thank you for posting this hidden gem. It starts slow. But an hour in it becomes an intense military courtroom drama as good as "A Few Good Men" or "Men of Honor" And a whodunit as well. For a free RUclips movie, it is damn good!
Once you get a third of the way in this becomes an amazing movie. Amazing plot with twists. Stacy Keach is phenomenal and should get higher billing. York as the young defender seeking truth and honor in the face of much pressure to give way to a quick trial is an amazing theme, one which is also used twenty years later in "A Few Good Men." I like this execution even better.
Astonishimg plot! Excellent movie! Superbe actors! York and Plummer are my two favourite English actors. Thank you, CCC! Enjoyed this film very much! Great entertainment!
You right -- Michael York was just such a unique actor in the Seventies. Will never forget his perfect D'Artagnan under the witty direction of Richard Lester. Have been missing him a lot since he cought that rare and terrible illness.
Absolutely excellent film, and I understand why we are unfamiliar with it. It could not have been shown on television in any way. I’m surprised that it made it into a theater?!? It deserves a revival.
I am of English extraction and used to spend many hours talking with my Grandfather before he died. My Grandfather had served in both WWI and WWII in the British army and the Canadian army respectively. Watching this movie reminded me of what he had to say about the British officers he had served under during WWI. To say he had great distain for them would be a massive understatement. He despised them in every way. It was all about King and Country for them and they had no use for the troops themselves. They expected blind loyalty and would accept no less, even when it came to murdering prisoners who had surrendered. On more than one occasion the word came down the line "There will be no prisoners today." My Grandfather had been up on charges once for disobeying a direct order and served 30 days in the stockade on bread and water. I asked him what had happened and he told me this. He had cornered two young German soldiers in a trench and they chose to give up the fight. He took their weapons and had them sitting down awaiting to be taken away when his Lieutenant arrived on the scene. He surveyed the situation and asked my Grandfather if he knew what his orders were. My Grandfather told him yes, he knew the orders and the Lieutenant responded, "Well get on with it then." My Grandfather refused and the Lieutenant turned his pistol on him and once again gave him the order to dispatch the prisoners and again he refused. Without another word the Lieutenant then turned his gun on the prisoners and shot and killed both of them. He then told my Grandfather to get moving and rejoin the fight. When the battle was over the Lieutenant had him summoned to headquarters and they conducted a mock trial with the Colonel and two other officers acting as the court. He plead guilty because he knew that they would convict him regardless of what had occurred and he was convicted and the Provost took him away to the stockade. I asked why he plead guilty and he told me he had two choices. Plead guilty and go to the stockade or plead not guilty and possibly end up in front of a firing squad when they changed the charges and added cowardice. It was also known among the troops that on occasion some men who had refused an order were found on the battlefield after the next action shot in the back. The situation for them was simple. Comply or die. My Grandfather went silent after he told me this and we never spoke of it again. I was 14 at the time and my Grandfather was 71, the same age I am today. But even today I remember the look on his face after he had told me these things and how they had haunted him all his life. He died the following year.
Интересно, ценные воспоминания. Думаю, на беспрекословном подчинении установленным правилам и исполнительности , пренебрежении правящего класса (элиты) ко всем остальным , во многом построена западная цивилизация. Хотя , бывает это принимает страшные проявления
This is absolutely true . In the British Indian Army , a Officer who showed too much interest in fellow officers wives , had the sobriquet of " Lounge Lizard "
Muy buena película sobre la amistad, fraternidad,la verdad por sobre la mentira para llegar a una cuestión de honor, la cualidad más importante en una persona y que en actualidad no se valora como debería ser. Película muy recomendable.
@@jamiejones7325 Stacy Keach is the most underrated actor of his generation. Almost everything he has done is very interesting to watch. I saw him do king Lear and couldn’t believe how amazing he was , and he wasn’t British. I actually met him once and told him I was a big fan. He seemed genuinely surprised and told me I was too young to have seen any of his movies.
Una grata sorpresa ver de nuevo este magnífico filme con tan icónicos actores en una soberbia interpretación en plasmar de principio a fin. Una verdadera joya en verdad la trama ahí expuesta. Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
What a pleasure to watch. Great acting, great screenwriting and makes one recall when actors were actors and not just fill ins reading idiot sheets in between computer generated cartoons. And what a relief that cast for the British members of the regiment were not colour coded by skin colour or gender.
The film is an incredible legal mystery set in British India in 1879, the acting is superb and the portrayal of military etiquette and dialogue is incredibly realistic, highly recommended for anyone who enjoys compelling dramatic fiction with historical accuracy.
Will somebody please explain the ending? (spoiler alert) Did a ghost take possession of the officer and make him do horrible things? Was he really Scarlett in disguise, who'd assumed another identity? But if so, why? And how was he able to fool everyone in his regiment into thinking he was somebody else? I just...don't get this. It was a great movie, up until the end, but after that it made no sense to me.
Couldn’t make out certain things. Was Drake really killed? Were Drake and Roche the same persons. Why was the regiment keeping it a secret? What is all this honour business,when they treat women like pigs. Their honour rooted in their dishonour stood.
Spoiler alert . . It seems that the man who killed himself *imagined* he had been possessed by a dead man, but he recognised - when confronted - that he'd been the person responsible for the assaults. As someone else commented, it may have been trauma ....
A finer grouping of British actors.actresses would be nigh impossible to find. I'd like to also mention two very fine Indian actors: Rafiq Anwar was spot on as Pradah Singh, so much so it didn't seem as acting. Persis Khambatta a rising star who left her fans too early in life.
I enjoyed this movie immensely, such great actors together in such a movie cant get better than that. Was this movie based on actual fact, it showed just before the credits the officer that Richard Attenborough portrayed in the movie
This deep, psychological drama is not just very entertaining, but It makes you to think.Very powerful story! The military trial brilliantly staged, played by all superb actors, is the gripping culmination with the unexpected revelations on the both sides and twists. Where the main question was: Can the officers handle the Truth? Watch this amassing movie and you will find out.
The film has barely started and I just counted at least four or five officers who do not have moustaches. This would not have been tolerated in an Indian cavalry regiment in the late 19th century.
Hi Funny how of the two new recruits it was the one who so much wanted to be in this ‘Honourable regiment who turned out to be the one to resign because they put honour above truth! And the one who wanted to be rejected by it remained after being exonerated by it after being falsely accused!
Very interesting dramatization and suspense. But I found the climax rather contrived - it was rather a stretch of imagination to attribute Major Roach's personality disorder to the incidents . Apart from that were the other red herrings .
I found this video to be entertaining and interesting from the very start, full of unexpected twists and turns I could not have imagined. I also found the Indian widow to be beautiful!!
Vaya, que pena esta en inglés, lo siento porque tiene buena pinta, al protagonista le conozco de otras pelis y me gusta, no me ha dado por los idiomas, pues nada otra vez será...😳😳
Hola Doña Macarena. He notado que en la grabación del sonido se manifiestan un ruido grave como cuando un parlante esta con la membrana rota. Eso viene sucediendo desde hace como 3 o 4 semanas. Puede ser que algo se le va dañar
Está basada en una obra de teatro de Barry England, quien sirvió en el ejército británico en Asia,. Quizá de ahí la ubicación. El personaje trastornado es ficticio.
The court room procedure in this movie has nothing to do with with a properly conducted fair trial, and is presented in this way to appeal to the theatre audience. Pure theatre. Similar theatrical court room hearing in the film Breaker Morant, which has elements of the original trial such as Morant saying 'we tried them under rule .303' this is actually historically accurate, but the court room procedure as presented in the Morant movie was a travesty, but this may reflect the real trial, though the transcript was not located at the time the Morant movie was made, it was discovered in South Africa years later. Fine performances and a well written script.
👏👏👏👏👏 This film is sheer PERFECTION. The story, the script, the casting, the flawless performances, the directing, the editing, the costuming... full marks in every category!! Attenborough... a master of his craft!
Of course it was 'perfection' dear boy, the bloody poms made it. That's why!
Never even heard of this until now - what a corker of a film. Thank you, full marks +++++
Stacy Keach, playing a British character, holds his own in a cast full of excellent British actors (and, Canadian, in the case of Plummer). Outstanding cast!
What a strongly built film, served by immense talents we have and still today regret - I attribute "excellent" to this art film. Thank you.
This is a brilliant movie.
9/10 in all departments. And a fun one too.
I highly recommend.
Christopher Plummer, Michael York and Stacey Keach played together in Jesus of Nazareth. Great to see them again ❤
Excellent movie: plot, cast and the eternal themes of honour, virtue, duty, truth & friendship. Superb story. I miss Michael York and Stacey Keach is mesmerizing in this role.
Why can't they make movies like this anymore?
Bécasse we have no honour, virtue, duty...
@@AB-rx6no Sad, but true.
Excellent film and stellar cast! Thank you for posting this classic! ❤️
Good cast. One might think that the plot might be predictable, but there are interesting twists. Surprisingly low-key, but intense, psychological drama.
I was on the edge of my seat the entire movie. They sure don't make them movies like this anymore.
Thank you for posting this hidden gem.
It starts slow. But an hour in it becomes an intense military courtroom drama as good as "A Few Good Men" or "Men of Honor" And a whodunit as well.
For a free RUclips movie, it is damn good!
Once you get a third of the way in this becomes an amazing movie. Amazing plot with twists. Stacy Keach is phenomenal and should get higher billing. York as the young defender seeking truth and honor in the face of much pressure to give way to a quick trial is an amazing theme, one which is also used twenty years later in "A Few Good Men." I like this execution even better.
Plus Christopher “Georg von Trapp” Plummer!
Top shelf? It turns into an XXX movie?
@@newsbender never heard the reference … I’ll switch the wording
Rather contrived ending . Multiple personality disorder - how convenient to fit the bill .
@@WSBMme neither, maybe I’m misunderstanding the commentary? Top shelf means “the best” and has nothing to do with xxx.
One of the best from the golden age.. Great stars
Thank-you for your kind response ❤❤❤
Excellent ❤❤❤
Really enjoyed this one. Great cast, and I thought it was going to be predictable but it did have a twist ending.
Multiple personality disorder seems like a far stretch .
The greatest dishonor is to oneself. Great storyline. Great acting. Thanks for posting.
Thank you. Glad you found the movie interesting too.
Fantastic movie. All about honour, loyalty, friendship and respect…….the honour of the regiment MUST be protected at ALL cost!
Astonishimg plot! Excellent movie! Superbe actors! York and Plummer are my two favourite English actors.
Thank you, CCC! Enjoyed this film very much! Great entertainment!
Susanah York performances very well her role. Pretty womam and very good actress.
Plummer was canadian.
You right -- Michael York was just such a unique actor in the Seventies. Will never forget his perfect D'Artagnan under the witty direction of Richard Lester. Have been missing him a lot since he cought that rare and terrible illness.
Absolutely excellent film, and I understand why we are unfamiliar with it. It could not have been shown on television in any way. I’m surprised that it made it into a theater?!? It deserves a revival.
I am of English extraction and used to spend many hours talking with my Grandfather before he died. My Grandfather had served in both WWI and WWII in the British army and the Canadian army respectively. Watching this movie reminded me of what he had to say about the British officers he had served under during WWI. To say he had great distain for them would be a massive understatement. He despised them in every way. It was all about King and Country for them and they had no use for the troops themselves. They expected blind loyalty and would accept no less, even when it came to murdering prisoners who had surrendered. On more than one occasion the word came down the line "There will be no prisoners today."
My Grandfather had been up on charges once for disobeying a direct order and served 30 days in the stockade on bread and water. I asked him what had happened and he told me this. He had cornered two young German soldiers in a trench and they chose to give up the fight. He took their weapons and had them sitting down awaiting to be taken away when his Lieutenant arrived on the scene. He surveyed the situation and asked my Grandfather if he knew what his orders were. My Grandfather told him yes, he knew the orders and the Lieutenant responded, "Well get on with it then." My Grandfather refused and the Lieutenant turned his pistol on him and once again gave him the order to dispatch the prisoners and again he refused. Without another word the Lieutenant then turned his gun on the prisoners and shot and killed both of them. He then told my Grandfather to get moving and rejoin the fight. When the battle was over the Lieutenant had him summoned to headquarters and they conducted a mock trial with the Colonel and two other officers acting as the court. He plead guilty because he knew that they would convict him regardless of what had occurred and he was convicted and the Provost took him away to the stockade. I asked why he plead guilty and he told me he had two choices. Plead guilty and go to the stockade or plead not guilty and possibly end up in front of a firing squad when they changed the charges and added cowardice. It was also known among the troops that on occasion some men who had refused an order were found on the battlefield after the next action shot in the back. The situation for them was simple. Comply or die.
My Grandfather went silent after he told me this and we never spoke of it again. I was 14 at the time and my Grandfather was 71, the same age I am today. But even today I remember the look on his face after he had told me these things and how they had haunted him all his life. He died the following year.
disdain..
Интересно, ценные воспоминания. Думаю, на беспрекословном подчинении установленным правилам и исполнительности , пренебрежении правящего класса (элиты) ко всем остальным , во многом построена западная цивилизация. Хотя , бывает это принимает страшные проявления
Great cast. Thank you!
This is absolutely true . In the British Indian Army , a Officer who showed too much interest in fellow officers wives , had the sobriquet of " Lounge Lizard "
By far the best movie I have seen on this platform
Best movie I've watched recently. Excellent acting.
Remarkable cast, presenting an excellent screen play, for a movie I've never heard of.
Muy buena película sobre la amistad, fraternidad,la verdad por sobre la mentira para llegar a una cuestión de honor, la cualidad más importante en una persona y que en actualidad no se valora como debería ser. Película muy recomendable.
Si
They got the Hindi language right for a change.
Good movie, Respect from Romania! 🇷🇴
🇫🇷 Excellent film. Excellents acteurs. Ai particulièrement aimé.
Is that Stacy Keach ? What range!
Yes, I’ll never be fan any stranger, but that was impressive acting.
Actor
Not movie star.😮
@@jamiejones7325 Stacy Keach is the most underrated actor of his generation. Almost everything he has done is very interesting to watch. I saw him do king Lear and couldn’t believe how amazing he was , and he wasn’t British. I actually met him once and told him I was a big fan. He seemed genuinely surprised and told me I was too young to have seen any of his movies.
@@jamiejones7325 you will become a fan if you see Fat City, the Long Riders, or Road Games among many other great movies.
Stacey Keach was absolutey outstanding in this. What a great actor!
Una grata sorpresa ver de nuevo este magnífico filme con tan icónicos actores en una soberbia interpretación en plasmar de principio a fin. Una verdadera joya en verdad la trama ahí expuesta.
Saludos y bendiciones a todos los cinéfilos de corazón desde Venezuela.
not a bad whodunit. Interesting to see "gentlemen officers" at play when bored out of their minds.
That's the regimental honour they're protecting .
A forgotten classic. Hollywood can't write these any more.
It wouldn't sell unfortunately to today's kids. No xbox games.
Outstanding movie, I’ve watched it several times.
Very good film. Thank you very much.
Wow! that was much better than expected!
Well done. Good story, good acting, and a fine set.
What a pleasure to watch. Great acting, great screenwriting and makes one recall when actors were actors and not just fill ins reading idiot sheets in between computer generated cartoons. And what a relief that cast for the British members of the regiment were not colour coded by skin colour or gender.
Wow, what a surprisingly good movie, well worth a watch.
Good film
Sunday movie night
❤😊
Brilliant movie on so many levels. Thanks for posting.
First time watching, good cast,acting and story.
The film is an incredible legal mystery set in British India in 1879, the acting is superb and the portrayal of military etiquette and dialogue is incredibly realistic, highly recommended for anyone who enjoys compelling dramatic fiction with historical accuracy.
Great film....saw it years ago. Loved Trevor Howard sporting the Cardigan whiskers once more. ⚔️
Thank you for posting this movie.
Will somebody please explain the ending? (spoiler alert) Did a ghost take possession of the officer and make him do horrible things? Was he really Scarlett in disguise, who'd assumed another identity? But if so, why? And how was he able to fool everyone in his regiment into thinking he was somebody else? I just...don't get this. It was a great movie, up until the end, but after that it made no sense to me.
He had ptsd from finding the guys body, the other officers were covering for him or were willfully ignorant to protect the regiment
And Roach was the bloke who shot himself.
Couldn’t make out certain things. Was Drake really killed? Were Drake and Roche the same persons. Why was the regiment keeping it a secret? What is all this honour business,when they treat women like pigs. Their honour rooted in their dishonour stood.
Spoiler alert
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It seems that the man who killed himself *imagined* he had been possessed by a dead man, but he recognised - when confronted - that he'd been the person responsible for the assaults. As someone else commented, it may have been trauma ....
@@adhipmitra No, Drake wasn't killed. Drake and Roach weren't the same person. You mean Scarlett.
Excellent movie thoroughly enjoyed it thankyou for uploading!!😊😅😮❤❤
The absolute best of British actors
A finer grouping of British actors.actresses would be nigh impossible to find.
I'd like to also mention two very fine Indian actors: Rafiq Anwar was spot on as Pradah Singh, so much so it didn't seem as acting. Persis Khambatta a rising star who left her fans too early in life.
Richard Attenborough?! John Hammond himself?!
Thank you for sharing this fantastic movie! 💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏
I enjoyed this movie immensely, such great actors together in such a movie cant get better than that. Was this movie based on actual fact, it showed just before the credits the officer that Richard Attenborough portrayed in the movie
Mike Hammer was surprisingly convincing as a British military officer.
Val Kilmer was also a convincing actor.
@@garrysekelli6776 Are you confusing Val Kilmer with Michael York?
A very well made movie.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Thank you.
Me ha gustado mucho: Para mí, buenísimos actores completando un estupendo guion... Muchas gracias, saludos...
This deep, psychological drama is not just very entertaining, but It makes you to think.Very powerful story! The military trial brilliantly staged, played by all superb actors, is the gripping culmination with the unexpected revelations on the both sides and twists. Where the main question was: Can the officers handle the Truth? Watch this amassing movie and you will find out.
" Conduct Unbecoming" is the title of this film.
Well written and well played. I didn't see that coming.
Never heard about this movie. All i can say is what a revelation! Top notch.
Damn suspenseful movie!
Cuanto queria ver esta pelicula, pero no recordaba como se llamaba, gracias por subirla, me encanta el cine ingles
Thanks for upload. Excellent film.
Bravo! Superb performances by all - brilliantly composed.
FU***N WOW! Brilliant Film! .... And I thought I'd seen them all!
Fantastic movie - fantastic cast.
Excellent. !..Film.... GREAT Cast...😊....
Awesome movie. Thanks for sharing.
Holy moly; intense, riveting and poignant. Great unsung movie.👍
Jus' sayin'!
The film has barely started and I just counted at least four or five officers who do not have moustaches. This would not have been tolerated in an Indian cavalry regiment in the late 19th century.
Thank you for uploading
Hi
Funny how of the two new recruits it was the one who so much wanted to be in this ‘Honourable regiment who turned out to be the one to resign because they put honour above truth! And the one who wanted to be rejected by it remained after being exonerated by it after being falsely accused!
Try not to spoil the plot twists for others 😊
This Officers’ Mess in India is a long way from the Sergeants’ Mess at Batasi, but Attenborough owned them both.
Very good
Excelente película. Gracias por subirla !!! 😉👌🏻
Fantastic film, superb cast
had me on the edge of my seat all the way through, some great talent there!
Very interesting dramatization and suspense. But I found the climax rather contrived - it was rather a stretch of imagination to attribute Major Roach's personality disorder to the incidents . Apart from that were the other red herrings .
Nice Movie & The Way of Solving 🎩
I found this video to be entertaining and interesting from the very start, full of unexpected twists and turns I could not have imagined. I also found the Indian widow to be beautiful!!
The most maddening part of the movie is they couldn't even get parachutes for the pilots.
Very good. Thank you
Saw the stage play in 1972 when at school. All I remember is the pig sticking scene in the mess. So long ago!
I wish we have slot of this fascinating movies
Honor of self or honor of organization. Very relevant theme considering the employees of the 3 letter agencies
Das englische "You" mit dem deutschen "Du" zu übersetzen nervt! But a wonderfull movie, great, thanks for uploading!
Vaya, que pena esta en inglés, lo siento porque tiene buena pinta, al protagonista le conozco de otras pelis y me gusta, no me ha dado por los idiomas, pues nada otra vez será...😳😳
Press the cc button top right for subtitles
Hola Doña Macarena. He notado que en la grabación del sonido se manifiestan un ruido grave como cuando un parlante esta con la membrana rota. Eso viene sucediendo desde hace como 3 o 4 semanas. Puede ser que algo se le va dañar
PELICULÓN!!!! lo único que no entiendo es por qué usaron el nombre de un oficial real del ejército británico- indio para un personaje trastornado?
Está basada en una obra de teatro de Barry England, quien sirvió en el ejército británico en Asia,. Quizá de ahí la ubicación.
El personaje trastornado es ficticio.
The court room procedure in this movie has nothing to do with with a properly conducted fair trial, and is presented in this way to appeal to the theatre audience. Pure theatre.
Similar theatrical court room hearing in the film Breaker Morant, which has elements of the original trial such as Morant saying 'we tried them under rule .303' this is actually historically accurate, but the court room procedure as presented in the Morant movie was a travesty, but this may reflect the real trial, though the transcript was not located at the time the Morant movie was made, it was discovered in South Africa years later.
Fine performances and a well written script.
I saw this on the stage decades ago. I remember there being a twist but I could not remember who was twisting.
Brilliant writing!
Good movie. Thanks.
What a great movie, great cast
Wow! What a film!
Excellent film!
Very Good
Beautiful film
Amo esses filmes antigos !!
All the famous Brit actors of 1975 (excluding Baker, Caine, and Connery).
Burton, O'Toole and a few other big names were still going then!
What a fucking brilliant movie . Cast and acting is top class which nowadays they can only dream to aspire to. Edge of the seat stuff !!!
Awesome thanks 😊
came for the fabulous piths.
stayed for the intense story.
"We need an actor to cast as a British military physician. Whom do you suggest?"
A movie worth watching