Word: martialled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regs," soon whips together a unit that makes up in morale what it lacks in morality. "England," says the colonel proudly, "always supplies the right man for the job. Even if it's the wrong job." Along the sound track at appropriate moments float snatches of martial music, and after B-day ("our finest hour"), many a brave mug's eye is misty as he bids his mates farewell. Happily, the well-mannered British police, always ready to give quod pro quid, arrange for a touching reunion of The League-in quarters provided by Her Majesty...
...officers and the battalion before its guests. But the triumph and the whisky go to Jock's head, and he makes an even more costly blunder than the colonel's: he "bashes" a corporal (John Eraser) for walking out with his daughter (Susannah York). A court-martial is indicated. The colonel generously refuses to order it. To his amazement, the battalion interprets his generosity as weakness, and old Jock cannily abets the error. The train is laid that leads to a moral catastrophe in which both men are destroyed...
...hired an impressive list of expert writers, from Quentin Reynolds (The Battle of Britain), William L. Shirer (Berlin Diary) and Richard Tregaskis (Guadalcanal Diary), to Hollywood Scenarists Beirne Lay Jr. (12 O'Clock High) and Robert Pirosh (Battleground). And firmly but unobtrusively in the background is a suitably martial, original musical score written by Richard Rodgers...
...arrangement of the massive Rimsky-Korsakoff orchestration, were heroic but more or less helpless: their tinkling didn't stand a chance against the full-bodied voices of the chorus. The music was sung in English; the translation, from the little I was able to hear of it, was appropriately martial. I am, I suppose, impressed by any loud sonority of sound, but this performance had more than volume; it was both articulate and exciting...
...Greeks and sacking stores with abandon. The Istanbul governor panicked, tried frantically to reach Bayar and Menderes, finally managed to get a telephone message to a stationmaster, who stopped the train. In the middle of the night, Bayar and Menderes raced back to Istanbul by car, where they declared martial law and finally ended the carnage...