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30 May 1988 (UK) morePlot:
Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, M.C. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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5 wins & 6 nominations moreUser 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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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).