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Release Date: 1975 Cast: Richard Attenborough, David Purcell, Andrew Lodge, Persis Khambatta, Michael Fleming, Trevor Howard, David Neville, Susannah York, James Donald, Helen Cherry, Michael York, Christopher Plummer ...MORE
Cast: Richard Attenborough, David Purcell, Andrew Lodge, Persis Khambatta, Michael Fleming, Trevor Howard, David Neville, Susannah York, James Donald, Helen Cherry, Michael York, Christopher Plummer, Stacy Keach, Michael Culver, Michael Byrne, Rafiq Anwar, James Faulkner, David Robb ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Period piece, Courtroom Drama, Crime Drama, British Empire Film Conduct Unbecoming is a 1975 British drama film, an adaptation of the Barry England play Conduct Unbecoming first staged in 1969. It was directed by Michael Anderson and starred an ensemble cast of actors including Michael York, Richard Attenborough and Trevor Howard.
Two young British officers arrive to join a prestigious regiment serving in India. One, Lieutenant Drake (York), from a middle-class background, is extremely eager to make the right impression while the other, Lieutenant Millington (Faulkner), the son of a General, is not taken with the idea of the army, and keen to get out... MORE
Conduct Unbecoming is a 1975 British drama film, an adaptation of the Barry England play Conduct Unbecoming first staged in 1969. It was directed by Michael Anderson and starred an ensemble cast of actors including Michael York, Richard Attenborough and Trevor Howard.
Two young British officers arrive to join a prestigious regiment serving in India. One, Lieutenant Drake (York), from a middle-class background, is extremely eager to make the right impression while the other, Lieutenant Millington (Faulkner), the son of a General, is not taken with the idea of the army, and keen to get out as soon as he possibly can. Almost as soon as they arrive, Millington gets off on the wrong foot with his comrades, causing them to dislike him.
A number of ladies associate with the regiment, many of them widows of officers who have died on active service. One of the most feted of these is Mrs Marjorie Scarlett, whose husband Captain Scarlett won a posthumous Victoria Cross after fighting on the North-West Frontier. [This would have been impossible, however, since the film is set in a period when the Victoria Cross was not awarded posthumously.] During an evening in the mess, involving the younger LESS
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