Soldiers Three (film)

Soldiers Three is a 1951 film based upon an element of several short stories by Rudyard Kipling featuring the same trio of British soldiers, and starring Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, and David Niven. The movie was directed by Tay Garnett .

As the longtime colonel of 1st Battalion, the Rutlandshire Regiment, an infantry unit, Brunswick had a trusted aide, Capt. Pindenny, and the service of three able but not always reliable privates, Ackroyd, Malloy and Sykes, who for his eighteen years as commander were the Queens hard bargain, sneaking off to drink, fight and gamble whenever they could. Against their wishes, one man must be elevated to sergeant to separate them and Ackroyd is the unhappy choice. Sent from their garrison at Hyderalipore to provide a show of force at a reported disturbance in Mirzabad, Brunswick and his battalion are recalled and placed under rival Colonel Groat of the 28th Hussars and his officious adjutant, Major Mercer.A rift develops between the three friends after Ackroyds promotion, but it is mended after he saves Sykes life. Sykes and Malloy become part of a small force under Mercer and Pindenny to an abandoned fort at Imara as a sacrificial lure to entrap the insurgent forces of Manik Rao. Ackroyd is left behind and apparently becomes a deserter. Groat separates his command and Brunswick uses it as an opportunity to ignore Groats order to return to his garrison post and take his battalion to Imara. ........

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