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Tumbledown (1988)

TV Movie  -   -  Drama  -  30 May 1988 (UK)
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Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, M.C..

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Robert Lawrence
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Hugh MacKessac
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John Lawrence
Barbara Leigh-Hunt ...
Jean Lawrence
Emma Harbour ...
Sophie Martin-Wells
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Nick Lawrence
Jack Fortune ...
Christopher Lawrence
Roddy Maude-Roxby ...
George Stubbs
Ann Bell ...
Helen Stubbs
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Louise Stubbs
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Prothero
Tam Dean Burn ...
Sergeant Brodick
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Lumpy
Ian Michie ...
Fraser
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Saltemarsh
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Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, M.C..

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Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence MC. See more »

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[an RAF doctor is giving Robert yet more tests]
Squadron Leader Wentworth: Your father gave me a lesson in military etiquette. I shall give you one. I am called "Sir".
Robert Lawrence: What are you? Squadron Leader? In the Household Division we don't call your rank "Sir".
Squadron Leader Wentworth: Well you can start now, Lawrence.
Robert Lawrence: You're in the Royal Air Force. Are you a flyer?
Squadron Leader Wentworth: No I'm not. I'm a doctor.
Robert Lawrence: [snarls] Well listen, Doctor. Just test this fist. It's just about to give you your first fucking flying lesson!
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Restrained examination of war and its values
1 June 2000 | by (Derbyshire, UK) – See all my reviews

Some background information; in 1982 2nd Bn, the Scots Guards were pulled from public duties (sentry-mounting in London) and sent to the Falkland Islands as part of the Task Force sent to recover it from Argentina. Unprepared as they were, they fought a savage and decisive battle to capture a vital hill, Mount Tumbledown. During the fighting, Lt. Richard Lawrence was very severely wounded.

This film alternates sequences from before and after his wounding; the battle, and his long and difficult recovery and convalescence. It has to steer a tricky course around the major pitfalls of british public opinion. There are on one hand, the tabloid-fuelled jingoism of a country involved in a major fight, and on the other hand the subsequent revulsion that such losses were suffered in a squabble for some barren islands several thousand miles from home.

The film does highlight the callousness and indifference with which the war's casualties were sometimes treated.

The overall story and moral are not new, but their treatment here, with hardly any bad language or earth-shattering battle effects, strikes a more thoughtful note than, say, "Saving PRivate Ryan".


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