Guns at Batasi (1964)

Directed by

John Guillermin

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rigid British sergeant major defends his remote African army base from mutineers. It follows the power struggle between old colonial order and the rising nationalist forces.

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What happens

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. Although the action is set in an overseas colonial military outpost during the last days of the British Empire in East Africa, filming was done at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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