Guns at Batasi

Guns at Batasi is a 1964 drama film starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton and Mia Farrow. The film was based on the 1962 novel The Siege of Battersea by Robert Holles and was directed by John Guillermin. Although the action is set in an overseas colonial military outpost during the last days of the British Empire in East Africa, the production was made at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom.

When the postcolonial government of the unnamed African country is overthrown by a populist uprising, troops loyal to the new administration take over the barracks, arrest the commanding officer and seize weapons. With the British NCOs cut off in the Sergeants mess during the mutiny, the action boils down to the initiative and confusion of the griping, dutyhardened British soldiers in defending Captain Abraham Earl Cameron a wounded African officer, and themselves, against the mutineers. The mess situation is further complicated by having to temporarily accommodate Miss BarkerWise, a female British MP Flora Robson and Karen Eriksson, a UN secretary Mia Farrow, the latter providing some love interest.Eventually the minor action comes to anticlimactic end when the countrys new administration allows the senior British officers to return to the barracks at Batasi and end the siege, but not before the RSM and a private involve themselves in some action the destruction of two Bofors guns Lieutenant Boniface had brought out to threaten the Sergeants mess. The film concludes with the news that a new government is in power. The film illustrates an erupting new world where the socalled common man, both black and white, no longer has a clear idea of the realpolitik due to the social revolutions in a postcolonial world. ........

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