Tumbledown (1988)Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, M.C.. Director:Richard EyreWriter:Charles Wood |
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Robert Lawrence
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Hugh MacKessac
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John Lawrence
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Barbara Leigh-Hunt | ... |
Jean Lawrence
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Emma Harbour | ... |
Sophie Martin-Wells
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| Rupert Baker | ... |
Nick Lawrence
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Jack Fortune | ... |
Christopher Lawrence
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Roddy Maude-Roxby | ... |
George Stubbs
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Ann Bell | ... |
Helen Stubbs
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| Sophie Thompson | ... |
Louise Stubbs
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| Dan Hildebrand | ... |
Prothero
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Tam Dean Burn | ... |
Sergeant Brodick
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| Mark Williams | ... |
Lumpy
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Ian Michie | ... |
Fraser
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| Paul Higgins | ... |
Saltemarsh
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Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, M.C..
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30 May 1988 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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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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Based on the experiences of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence MC. See more »Quotes
[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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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".