Conduct Unbecoming (film)
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| Conduct Unbecoming | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Michael Anderson |
| Starring | Michael York Richard Attenborough Trevor Howard |
| Music by | Stanley Myers |
| Cinematography | Robert Huke |
| Editing by | John Glen |
| Distributed by | British Lion |
| Release date(s) | 5 October 1975 |
| Running time |  107 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Conduct Unbecoming is a 1975 film adaptation of the Barry England play Conduct Unbecoming first staged in 1969. It was directed by Michael Anderson and starred an esemble cast of actors.
[edit] Plot
Two young officers arrive to join a presitgous regiment serving in India. One Leuitenant Drake (Yorke), from a middle-class background, is extremely eager to make the right impression while the other Leuitenant Fothergill (Culver), a son of a General, is not taken with the idea of the army, and is keen to get out as soon as he possibly can. Almost as soon as they arrive, Fothergill gets off on the wrong foot with his comrades, causing them to dislike him.
A number of ladies associate with the regiment, many of them widows of officers who have died on active service. One of the most feted of these is Mrs Marjorie Scarlett, whose husband Captain Scarlett won a posthumous Victoria Cross after fighting on the North-West Frontier. During an evning in the mess, involving the younger officers taking part in a ceremonial tradition that involes the pursuit and stick of the pig, Mrs Scarlett runs in claiming to have been attacked, and identifying Leiutenant Fothergill as her attacker.
Fothergill has clearly seen this as a quick way back to England, and is apparently not bothered by the disgrace. He does not co-operate with the officer selected to defend him, Leuitenant Drake, and is adament in his refusal to deny his guilt. The trial, convened in secret by the officers of the regiment to protect reputations, is expected to be formality.
However, as the court begins to examine the open-and-shut circumstances of the case, a number of elements of doubt creep into the case including the nature of the attack, and the veracity of some of the evidence being given. This leads to Drake beginning to dig a little further, and having found a similar attack had taken place six months before, long before Fothergill had joined the regiment, he begins to suspect the culprit was in fact one of the other officers.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Michael York | Leuitenant Drake |
| Richard Attenborough | Major Roach |
| Trevor Howard | Colonel Strang |
| Stacy Keach | Captain Harper |
| Christopher Plummer | Major Wimbourne |
| Susannah York | Mrs Scarlett |
| James Faulkner | Leuitenant Millington |
| Michael Culver | Leuitenant Fothergill |
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