This is yet another over lauded movie that was received apparently ecstatically on its release and has gone on to achieve semi-cult status. The problem then is that seeing it for the first time almost half a century after the initial release one has to imagine what all the fuss was about. It does benefit from some fine acting; both Alec Guiness and John Mills were well respected leading actors and if Mills is unable to quite discard his main acting 'technique' - the thing he does with his tongue - the way Sean Connery can never quite discard his Scotch accent so be it. The plot such as it is is that old chestnut about the clash of personalities, the old and new, the kind of thing Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald used to do in cassocks. This time its kilts instead of cassocks and a slightly different kind of music; other than that ...
Review of Tunes of Glory
