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Tunes of GloryOther

by Ronald Neame

Who uses, recommends or left Tunes of Glory, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Michael Korda
English-born American editor and author; editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, and author of the family memoir Charmed Lives (1979) and lives of Eisenhower, T. E. Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
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The regiment in Tunes of Glory is like one of those, a small, enclosed world, and in it the rivalry between the brash and heroic young colonel and his replacement leads to a sad and messy tragedy. It is one of those brilliant “little” films that almost reaches greatness, and it remains, along with The Hill and Zulu, one of the iconic films about the British Army.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Michael Korda, the entry for Tunes of Glory.

2011-11-29·criterion.com ↗

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