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Director:
Richard Eyre
Writer:
Charles Wood (writer)
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Release Date:
30 May 1988 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, M.C. | add synopsis
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Awards:
5 wins & 6 nominations more
User Comments:
A personal account turned anti-war message by circumstance more (8 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Colin Firth ... Robert Lawrence
Paul Rhys ... Hugh MacKessac
David Calder ... John Lawrence
Barbara Leigh-Hunt ... Jean Lawrence
Emma Harbour ... Sophie Martin-Wells

Rupert Baker ... Nick Lawrence
Jack Fortune ... Christopher Lawrence
Roddy Maude-Roxby ... George Stubbs
Ann Bell ... Helen Stubbs
Sophie Thompson ... Louise Stubbs
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Leila Bertrand ... Night nurse #2
Tam Dean Burn ... Sgt. Brodick
Timothy Carlton ... Lt. Col. Bill Kirke
Tony Caunter ... Air Commodore
Sharon D. Clarke ... Night nurse #1
Ben Cole ... Harry Hebers
David Conville ... Brigade officer
Winston Crooke ... Benny
Robin Daglish ... Maj. Peter Walsh
Murray Ewan ... CSM Brown
Martin Garfield ... Argentinian soldier
Serena Gordon ... Phyllida
James Griffiths ... Surgeon
Brian Hall ... Squandron Leader Wentworth
Victoria Hasted ... Nurse Wendy

Paul Higgins ... Saltemarsh

Dan Hildebrand ... Prothero
George Irving ... Tug
Arbel Jones ... Welsh Lady
Charles Lamb ... Elderly man
Steven Law ... Cabby
Andrew Livingston ... Young doctor (as Andrew Livingstone)
Edward Lyon ... RAMC Lieutenant Colonel
Maggie McCarthy ... Nurse Mary
Iain McColl ... Colour Sergeant
Andrew McCulloch ... Padre Maj. Alistair Tolly
Marian McLoughlin ... Mandy
Ian Michie ... Fraser
Charles Millham ... The Noble Lord
Felicity Montagu ... Tricia
Francisco Morales ... Argentinian soldier
Angela Morant ... Maj. Newman
Wendy Nottingham ... Mrs. Prothero
Richard Owens ... RAF officer
Stewart Porter ... O'Rourke

Pete Postlethwaite ... Major (Rehabilitation Center)
Edward Rawle-Hicks ... Lt. Peter Fyshe
Edwin Richfield ... Group Captain
Clive Russell ... Terry Knapp
Sean Scanlan ... Welsh Man
Roy Spencer ... Hospital chaplain
Liza Tarbuck ... Angie
Alan White ... Yeoman Warder
Mark Williams ... Lumpy
Mark Wing-Davey ... Adjutant Stewart Inglis
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:115 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:MA (2008)

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Referenced in Forever Ealing (2002) (TV) more

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A personal account turned anti-war message by circumstance, 22 April 2007
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Author: itremont from United States

This was a TV movie done by the BBC in 1988, aired in the UK in 1989 that stirred all sorts of attitudes and drew a lot of flak within the UK. Yet it sticks to the memories of Lt. Lawrence, the Scots Guards officer who came to fight for the Queen and for his country, contributed to final victory at the summit of Mount Tumbledown in the Malvinas (Falklands) Islands, but paid a price higher than being killed: to stay alive, but critically wounded, useless for the Army, and not able to return to the only job he could work in. It showed crudely that 1. The victors did not handle their wounded well, hiding them in indifference and with shame 2. War is war, and far from romantic. The most controversial scene (that the Ministry of Defense tried to delete from the movie by putting pressure on the BBC) shows Lt. Lawrence mercilessly bayoneting a wounded Argentine marine on the hillside. The soldier groans "don't kill me, don't kill me, please.. please... while the killer pushes the bayonet several times, almost sadistically. For the British viewers this was hard to see, as it also portrayed their soldiers as evil in combat with fallen enemy soldiers. 3. It is one of the few movies that recreates faithfully how the Falklands war was fought. Until 2005, there were only two movies with this war as a background. The other one was "Resurrected". In 2005 the movie "Lit by fire" (Iluminados Por El Fuego") told form the Argentine side the way its vets were neglected from society). "Tumbledown showed that the Argentines did fight well despite their limitations (18-year-old draftees with inadequate clothing and shaky morale).

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