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Les Canons de Batasi

Titre original : Guns at Batasi
  • 1964
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  • 1h 43min
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Les Canons de Batasi (1964)
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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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAnachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those... Tout lireAnachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.

  • Réalisation
    • John Guillermin
  • Scénario
    • Robert Holles
    • Leo Marks
    • Marshall Pugh
  • Casting principal
    • Richard Attenborough
    • Jack Hawkins
    • Flora Robson
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    7,1/10
    2,1 k
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    • Réalisation
      • John Guillermin
    • Scénario
      • Robert Holles
      • Leo Marks
      • Marshall Pugh
    • Casting principal
      • Richard Attenborough
      • Jack Hawkins
      • Flora Robson
    • 45avis d'utilisateurs
    • 12avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Victoire aux 1 BAFTA Award
      • 2 victoires et 2 nominations au total

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    Rôles principaux25

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    Richard Attenborough
    Richard Attenborough
    • Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale
    Jack Hawkins
    Jack Hawkins
    • Colonel Deal
    Flora Robson
    Flora Robson
    • Miss Barker-Wise
    John Leyton
    John Leyton
    • Private Wilkes
    Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow
    • Karen Eriksson
    Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker
    • Fletcher
    Errol John
    Errol John
    • Lieut. Boniface
    Graham Stark
    Graham Stark
    • Sgt. 'Dodger' Brown
    Earl Cameron
    Earl Cameron
    • Captain Abraham
    Percy Herbert
    Percy Herbert
    • Colour Sgt. Ben Parkin
    David Lodge
    David Lodge
    • Sgt. 'Muscles' Dunn
    Bernard Horsfall
    Bernard Horsfall
    • Sgt. 'Schoolie' Prideaux
    John Meillon
    John Meillon
    • Sgt. 'Aussie' Drake
    Horace James
    • Corporal Abou
    Patrick Holt
    Patrick Holt
    • Captain
    Alan Browning
    • Adjutant
    Richard Bidlake
    • Lieutenant
    Joseph Layode
    Joseph Layode
    • Archibong Shaw
    • Réalisation
      • John Guillermin
    • Scénario
      • Robert Holles
      • Leo Marks
      • Marshall Pugh
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    9sholton

    Brilliant

    This is a brilliant representation of a classic Regimental Sergeant Major, and shows the classic values that should continue to thrive (and sadly don't) in our military of today.

    Over the top? Yes... a little...but show me a TRUE RSM who isn't. Such men really existed... and they were a source of inspiration, guidance and customs and traditions for many.

    Well done by Sir Richard.

    From what I've heard, he spent a year preparing for this role by understudying real RSMs at the RSM-prep school in Sandhurst.

    I've used this film as a training aid when teaching leadership to young soldiers - and I continue to enjoy it today.
    7brad_and_ethan

    Competent and Intelligent Film

    I enjoyed this film considerably. The production values were nice, the acting good, and it had a good sense of humor I wasn't expecting. The Sergeant Major's character was obviously clichéd, but they rounded him out enough to save him from being a mediocre character. There are some really nice touches in the script, and many of them are humorous. I though that the wounded captain's collapse just as he's giving himself up to his African countrymen is a bit coincidental, but dramatically speaking, he needs to be kept in the mess hall. And for what it's worth, and although I've never been a big fan of hers, Mia Farrow has never looked hotter.
    8bkoganbing

    The Sun Setting On The British Empire

    In 1957 with the independence of the Gold Coast renamed Ghana as a new nation, the various colonial powers were getting shed of their colonies as World War II left them unable to hold on. If you looked at a map of the world the year before you would see in Africa the various colonial entities depicted in the same color as the power holding on. By the end of the Sixties you can see Africa as color coded without reference to a mother country.

    This phenomenon started for the British when they left India to her own devices in 1947. It started with Ghana in 1957 and Guns At Batasi starts as a scene being repeated over and over in Africa, British regular army forces packing up and turning their military installations over to the new African armies of whatever country they were in.

    But there's a bad political situation brewing here. The Africans that the British have turned the country over to are now being threatened themselves by a military coup. As RSM Richard Attenborough and his mates are just enjoying some last hours at their Sergeant's Mess, wounded Captain Earl Cameron seeks refuge. His lieutenant Errol John is part of the new government and he wants Cameron as a war prisoner.

    There's a bit of racist attitude in Attenborough and his peers, but they have been in Africa for years and know the temper of the people. A great deal more so than Lady MP Flora Robson who knew Errol John as a student in London and feels she can reason with him. She gets disabused of that notion rather fast.

    It's a delicate political situation that Attenborough doesn't need reminding of. Still he shows some good initiative in his response.

    Guns At Batasi is a snapshot in time of the changing face of Africa. And even more interesting is the fact that the film was shot in the United Kingdom without setting foot in Africa. The producers could get away with it because most of the film takes place in and around the sergeant's mess. And Africa was replete with Batasi like incidents to make location shooting not a good idea.

    Although he's backed by a superb cast which also includes Jack Hawkins as the local army commander and Cecil Parker as the former colonial administrator of the area, Guns At Batasi is the film of Richard Attenborough. He really does become the spit and polish, all army RSM. It is said that the high non-commissioned officers really run the army in an country and with people like Attenborough you can believe it.

    Errol John is wonderful in his role as well. A few years earlier this was a part earmarked for Sidney Poitier, but now many black players were getting their due. John should have had a great career.

    Guns At Batasi is a great film about the declining days of the British colonial empire. This was when the sun was finally setting.
    8planktonrules

    Tense and exciting...

    About the only British war film I can think of that was more tension-filled than "Guns at Batasi" is "Zulu"--and that puts it in awfully good company. In addition, Richard Attenborough has a terrific performance as a very rigid and very traditional Sergeant Major.

    The film is set in Africa in one of the nations that is still a member of the Commonwealth--though it has achieved the distinction of finally having its own government. However, like so many nascent African nations, it's unstable--and soon after the film begins there is a coup and the government topples. The problem is that a group of British soldiers are stationed there and the new leaders want the Brits to give up their weapons as well as surrender a man to them. But, the tough-as-nails Sergeant Major isn't about to do either of these unless he has a direct order to do so. And, it doesn't matter if there is a know-it-all member of Parliament (Flora Robson) telling him to do this--she is not his superior officer and he is not about to break the chain of command.

    As I said, it's a very tense little film. You may not appreciate the Brit-focus (after all, they were a Colonial nation until just before the film took place) nor casting an unnecessary sex interest (why include this--isn't there enough action already--plus who stops to have sex when they are facing what appears to be certain death?!). I could look past these things and just saw it as a darn fine action-adventure film. Worth seeing.
    ubercommando

    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.

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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".
    • Gaffes
      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.
    • Citations

      RSM Lauderdale: I have seen Calcutta. I have eaten camel dung. My knees are brown, my navel is central, my conscience is clear, and my will is with my solicitors, Short and Curly.

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    • Date de sortie
      • 12 mars 1965 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Guns at Batasi
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Salisbury, Wiltshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
    • Sociétés de production
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • George H. Brown Productions
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    • Durée
      • 1h 43min(103 min)
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 2.39 : 1

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