Schüsse in Batasi

Originaltitel: Guns at Batasi

1964
12
1 Std. 43 Min.

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7,1/10

2029

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Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale, on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.

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Ein anachronistischer strenger Regimentsfeldwebel, der sich in einer abgelegenen kolonialen afrikanischen Armee befindet, die bei einem lokalen Staatsstreich gefangen genommen wurde, muss se... Alles lesenEin anachronistischer strenger Regimentsfeldwebel, der sich in einer abgelegenen kolonialen afrikanischen Armee befindet, die bei einem lokalen Staatsstreich gefangen genommen wurde, muss seine Erfahrung nutzen, um die ihm anvertrauten Personen zu verteidigen.Ein anachronistischer strenger Regimentsfeldwebel, der sich in einer abgelegenen kolonialen afrikanischen Armee befindet, die bei einem lokalen Staatsstreich gefangen genommen wurde, muss seine Erfahrung nutzen, um die ihm anvertrauten Personen zu verteidigen.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,1/10

2029

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

1 BAFTA Award gewonnen
- 2 Gewinne & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

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Britt Ekland had been cast as Karen Eriksson but pulled out three weeks into production. She had just married Peter Sellers who apparently was so jealous of her casting alongside John Leyton that he asked his actor friends David Lodge and Graham Stark who were also in the cast, to secretly spy on her. After being frequently quizzed on the telephone by Sellers about the shooting and who she acted with, Ekland left the Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, and joined Sellers in Los Angeles. 20th Century-Fox sued Ekland for $1.5 million; Sellers counter-sued for $4 million claiming the Fox suit caused him "mental distress and injury to his health".

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The personal weapon used by the British is the Sterling sub machine gun which replaced the Sten in the British Army in 1953. This weapon is held with the left hand on the barrel and never the magazine or housing. Holding the magazine is a throwback to its predecessor, the Sten. The experienced senior members of the Mess are holding it incorrectly whilst the most inexperienced among them (Private Wilkes) holds it correctly and naturally.

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RSM Lauderdale: Will you stick a boomerang in that great Aussie cakehole of yours until I've finished?

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Featured in Film Review: Richard Attenborough (1968)

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Probably Dickie's best

It's the early 60's, Africa is being decolonised and a supposedly peaceful transition from colony to independent nation goes awry. All that stands between order and "enemies of the new state" being butchered is Dickie Attenborough's RSM and his Sergeant's mess. He has to defend his barracks, put up with a naive left wing politician, a young girl who's taken a fancy to a conscript private who wants his last day in the army to go without a hitch, a wounded African officer who is greatly respected by the RSM, but is an enemy of the new army he's supposed to be in charge of and a largely absent British officer corps. But this won't get Dickie down; the worse things get, the more determined and resolved he gets. Some of his dialogue is fantastic and his calm (and not so calm) put downs of those who threaten him or complain to him are brilliant. Like Anthony Hopkins in "Remains of the Day", his is a lifetime of service and duty; but one that kicks serious ass.

It's one of Attenborough's finest performances: Certainly up there with Brighton Rock.