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Director:

Bill Anderson

Writers:

William Boyd (writer)
Evelyn Waugh (novel)

Contact:

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Release Date:

2 January 2001 (UK) more

Genre:

Drama | War more

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Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination more

NewsDesk:

Celebrity Biography: Tom Wisdom
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User Comments:

Much, much better than we'd any right to expect. more (7 total)


Cast

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Will Adamsdale ... HOO headquarters officer

Nick Bartlett ... Popforce soldier
Christopher Benjamin ... Doctor
Jane Bertish ... Mme Kanyi
Peter Blythe ... Gen. Graves

Nicholas Boulton ... Bertie
Monica Brady ... Hotel receptionist
Tim Briggs ... Sgt. Glass
Selina Cadell ... Angela Crouchback
Rebecca Cardinale ... Italian woman

Katrin Cartlidge ... Julia Stitch
Simon Chandler ... Maj. Irvine
Josh Cole ... Sapper Capt. Beech
Richard Coyle ... Trimmer McTavish

Daniel Craig ... Guy Crouchback
Graham Crammond ... Bellamy's barman
Abigail Cruttenden ... Kerstie Kilbannock
Robert Daws ... Maj. Hound
Megan Dodds ... Virginia

Christoph Dostal ... Blackshirt #1

Dan Fredenburgh ... Radio operator
Pier Gardini ... Blackshirt #2

Adam Godley ... Apthorpe
Peter Gunn ... Sgt. Tozer
Patrick Hannaway ... Drill sergeant
Barry Harrison ... Squad Sergeant
Guy Henry ... Ludovic

William Hope ... General Clayton
Richard Huw ... Captain Fremantle
James Innes-Smith ... Landslide Lieutenant (as James Innes Smith)

Sidney Kean ... Capo blackshirt
Chris Lennard ... Dakar Beach soldier
Joseph Long ... Italian priest
Nick Lucas ... Halberdier lecturer
Clunie Mackenzie ... Mrs. Tickeridge
Stephen Mangan ... Frank De Souza

Ivan Marevich ... Bakic
Lloyd McGuire ... Mugging victim (as Lloyd Maguire)

Sean McKenzie ... Sgt. Smiley
Oliver Montgomery ... Sergeant Woods
Euan Morton ... Wounded Soldier
Ruaraidh Murray ... Messenger
Richard Norton ... Australian sergeant
Robert Paterson ... Stratton concierge
Edward Petherbridge ... Perigrin Crouchback
Leslie Phillips ... Gervase Crouchback

Robert Pugh ... Brig. Ritchie-Hook
Nick Reding ... Squadron Leader Cape
Julian Rhind-Tutt ... Ian Kilbannock

Serge Soric ... Partisan General
Yuri Stepanov ... Partisan Minister
Craig Stokes ... Destroyer nurse
Malcolm Storry ... Maj. Tickeridge
Geoffrey Streatfield ... Eddie
Rafferty Tellett ... Little Gervase
Rupert Vansittart ... Commander-in-Chief
Mark Wakeling ... Halberdier sergeant
Damian Warren ... Australian Sergeant

James Weber-Brown ... Tommy Blackhouse
Simon Williams ... Maj. Sprat

Tom Wisdom ... Ivor Claire
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Additional Details

Runtime:

191 min (2 parts)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Sound Mix:

Stereo


Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:

Version of "Sword of Honour" (1967) more


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21 out of 25 people found the following comment useful.
Much, much better than we'd any right to expect., 15 March 2001
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Author: Alice Liddel (-darragh@excite.com) from dublin, ireland

'Sword of Honour' can be seen as an update of the Boultings' 'Pilgrim's Progress' - an anachronistic idealist fights in World War Two for reasons of chivalric honour, only to see the world overrun by liars, cheats, murderers, cowards and lunatics; where decency is pointless, even dangerous.

William Boyd's restructuring of Waugh's war trilogy is a miracle of adaptation - his leavening of verbal humour with slapstick; his capturing of Waugh's elliptical tone; his creation of haunting visual patterns acting as counterpoint to the horrific satire that is the war. There is one haunting sequence amid so much disintegration, the false bomb warning during Virginia's post-natal party, that magically hints at forces beyond man's self-defeating endeavour, while also rescuing a character Waugh was rather hard on. In the moral sense.

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