18th July (Third Friday)

TUNES OF GLORY

UK | 1960 |106 mins | Drama/Classic | Dir: Ronald Neame
Cast: Alec Guinness. John Mills and Susannah York

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During World War II, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer.

Now the regiment has returned to Scotland, and a new commanding officer is to be appointed. Jock’s own cleverness is pitted against his new C.O., his daughter, his girlfriend, and the other officers in the Mess.

Between 1960 and 1961, Tunes of Glory won one award, in 1960, for Best Actor (John Mills, at the Venice Film Festival) and received seven nominations, including, in 1960, for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (US Academy Awards).