Plot
Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough) is a by-the-book, strict disciplinarian, who seems like an anachronism in a sleepy peacetime African outpost of the modern British commonwealth. Ridiculed behind his back by his subordinate N.C.O.s, he must play host to a liberal women M.P. making a tour of the base. However, after an ambitious African officer, who happens to be a protégé of the M.P., initiates a coup d'état against Captain Abraham (Earl Cameron), the lawful African commandant, the resourceful Sergeant Major uses all of his military training to save his men from a certain firing squad.
Written by
Robert Holles, Leo Marks, Marshall Pugh
Directed by
John Guillermin
Crew
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
George H. Brown Productions, 20th Century Fox
Languages
English
Awards
Won 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 2 nominations total