'Regimental Sergeant Major' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Actors:
James G. Robinson (producer),
Ned Dowd (producer),
Michael Mann (producer),
Pete Postlethwaite (actor),
Wes Studi (actor),
David Schofield (actor),
Colm Meaney (actor),
Patrice Chéreau (actor),
Mark Joy (actor),
Daniel Day-Lewis (actor),
Dylan Baker (actor),
Jared Harris (actor),
Maurice Roëves (actor),
Michael Mann (writer),
Philip Dunne (writer),
Plot: British and French troops do battle in colonial America, with aid from various native American war parties. The British troops enlist the help of local colonial militia men, who are reluctant to leave their homes undefended. A budding romance between a British officer's daughter and an independent man who was reared as a Mohican complicates things for the British officer, as the adopted Mohican pursues his own agenda despite the wrath of different people on both sides of the conflict.
Keywords: 1750s, 18th-century, abenaki-indian, adoption, adoptive-father-adopted-son-relationship, adventure-hero, ambush, axe, axe-fight, axe-murder
Genres:
Action,
Adventure,
Drama,
History,
Romance,
War,
Taglines: The first American hero.
Quotes:
Colonel Munro: Death and honor are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
British Officer: You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown?::Hawkeye: I do not call myself subject to much at all.
Duncan: There is a war on. How is it you are headed west?::Hawkeye: Well, we kinda face to the north and real subtle-like turn left.
Colonel Munro: And how am I to know it wasn't a raid by thieves?::Hawkeye: The cabin was attacked by a war party fighting with the French. They're sweeping south along the frontier attacking farms and Mohawk villages, all the men are stuck here.::Colonel Munro: I need proof more convincing than this man's opinion before I weaken the fort's defenses by releasing the militia.::Jack Winthrop: Chingachgook had the same opinion about the raid; taken together that's gospel. Your fort will stand or fall depending on Webb's reinforcements, not the presence of the Colonials.::Colonel Munro: I judge military matters here, not you.::Hawkeye: Your judgment is not more important than their right under agreement with Webb to defend their farms and families. Major Hayward was there, he was at John Cameron's, he saw what it was.::Colonel Munro: What exactly did you see Major?::Duncan: [glancing at Cora] I saw nothing that would lead me to the conclusion that it was other than a raid by savages bent on thievery.::Hawkeye: You're a liar.::Colonel Munro: [as Duncan lunges for Hawkeye] Major!::[to Hawkeye]::Colonel Munro: Montcalm is a soldier and a gentleman, not a butcher.::Hawkeye: Easy for you to suppose, it's their women and children on the farms, not yours!::Colonel Munro: You forget yourself, sir.::Jack Winthrop: We're not forgetting Webb's promise.::Colonel Munro: British promises are honored. And the militia will not be released, because I need more definite proof than this man's word.::Jack Winthrop: Nathaniel's word's been good on thie frontier a long time before you got here.::Colonel Munro: This meeting is over, the militia stays.::Jack Winthrop: Does the rule of English law no longer govern? Has it been replaced by absolutism?::Hawkeye: If English law cannot be trusted maybe these people would do better making their own peace with the French.::Duncan: That is sedition!::Hawkeye: That is the truth.::Duncan: I'll have you beaten from this fort!::Hawkeye: Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.::Colonel Munro: Anyone fomenting or advocating the leaving of Fort William Henry will be hung for sedition. Anyone actually CAUGHT leaving will be shot for desertion. Now my decision is final. Get out!
Hawkeye: It was a war party. That means they're going to be attacking up and down the frontier.
Cora Munro: A breed a part, we make no sense?::Hawkeye: In your particular case, Miss, I'd make an allowance.::Cora Munro: Thank you so much.
Cora Munro: Why were those people living in this defenseless place?::Hawkeye: After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here 'cause the frontier's the only land available to poor people. Out here, they're beholden to none. Not living by another's leave.
Colonel Munro: Those considerations are subordinate to the interests of the Crown.
Cora Munro: He saved us. We're alive only because of him.::Colonel Munro: The man encouraged the colonials to desert in this very room and in my presence! Sir! He is guilty of sedition. He must be tried and hanged like any other criminal, regardless of what he did for my children.::Cora Munro: But he knew the consequences, and he stayed. Are those the actions of a criminal?
Cora Munro: You've done everything you can do. Save yourself! If the worst happens, and only one of us survives, something of the other does, too.
The Meaning of Life (1983)
Actors:
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Graham Chapman (actor),
Plot: Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth. A doctor seems more interested in his equipment than in delivering the baby or caring for the mother, a Roman Catholic couple have quite a lot of children because 'every sperm is sacred'. In the growing and learning part of life, catholic schoolboys attend a rather strange church service and ditto sex education lesson. Onto war, where an officer's plan to attack is thwarted by his underlings wanting to celebrate his birthday and an officer's leg is bitten off by presumably an African tiger. At middle age a couple orders 'philosophy' at a restaurant, after which the film continues with live organ transplants. The autumn years are played in a restaurant, which, after being treated to the song 'Isn't It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?' by an entertainer, sees the arrival of an extremely fat man. He can eat a lot, but also throw up quite copiously. The Grim Reaper brings for the final stage of human life, death, a visit to a mansion, where the people are rather interested in him. But life doesn't stop at death. It's onto heaven, where it's always Christmas.
Keywords: 1870s, 1910s, 1980s, 19th-century, 20th-century, absurd-humor, absurdism, acting-like-a-fish, actor-playing-multiple-roles, africa
Genres:
Comedy,
Musical,
Taglines: What it is, Where it is, and how to avoid treading in it [Video Australia] It took God six days to create the earth, and Monty Python just 90 minutes to screw it up.
Quotes:
Hospital Administrator: And what are you doing this morning?::Obstetrician: It's a birth.::Hospital Administrator: Ah. And what sort of thing is that?::Dr. Spenser: Well, that's where we take a new baby out of a lady's tummy.::Hospital Administrator: Wonderful what we can do nowdays.
Man in Pink: [singing] Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown / and things seem hard or tough / and people are stupid, obnoxious or daft / and you feel that you've had quite enough! / just remember that your standing on a planet thats evolving / revolving at nine-hundred miles an hour / its orbiting at ninety miles a second / so its reckoned / a sun that is the source of all our power / the sun and you and me / and all the stars that we can see / are moving at a million miles a day / in an outer spiral arm at forty-thousand miles an hour / of the galaxy we call the Milky Way / Our galaxy itself / contains a hundred billion stars / its a hundred thousand lightyears side to side / it bulges in the middle / sixteen-thousand lightyears thick / but out by us its just three-thousand lightyears wide / were thirty-thousand lightyears from galatic central point / we go round every two-hundred-million years / and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe. [musical interlude] The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding / in all of the directions it can whiz / as fast as it can go / the speed of light you know / twelve million miles a minute and thats the fastest speed there is / so remember when your feeling very small and insecure / how amazingly unlikely is your birth / and pray that there intelligent life somewhere up in space / cause theres bugger all down here on Earth.
Noel Coward: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Here's a little number I tossed off recently in the Caribbean. [singing] Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis? / Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong? / It's swell to have a stiffy. / It's divine to own a dick, / From the tiniest little tadger / To the world's biggest prick. / So, three cheers for your Willy or John Thomas. / Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake, / Your piece of pork, your wife's best friend, / Your Percy, or your cock. / You can wrap it up in ribbons. / You can slip it in your sock, / But don't take it out in public, / Or they will stick you in the dock, / And you won't come back.
Grim Reaper: Englishmen, you're all so fucking pompous. None of you have got any balls.
Grim Reaper: Shut up, you American. You Americans, all you do is talk, and talk, and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say." Well, you're dead now, so shut up.
Father: The mill's closed. There's no more work. We're destitute.::Children: Ohhhhh.::Father: I'm afraid I have no choice but to sell you all for scientific experiments.
Gaston: You see that house? That is where I was born. My mother said to me, "Garcon. The world is a beautiful place, and you must spread joy and contentment everywhere you go". And so I became a waiter... Well, I know it is not a great philosophy but... [pauses, looks offended] Well, fuck you. I can live my life in my own way if I want to. [begins to walk away in disgust] Fuck off. Don't come following me.
Chaplain: Let us praise God. O Lord...::Congregation: O Lord...::Chaplain: ...Ooh, You are so big...::Congregation: ...ooh, You are so big...::Chaplain: ...So absolutely huge.::Congregation: ...So absolutely huge.::Chaplain: Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.::Congregation: Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell You.::Chaplain: Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying, and...::Congregation: And barefaced flattery.::Chaplain: But You are so strong and, well, just so super.::Congregation: Fantastic.::Humphrey: Amen.::Congregation: Amen.
Maitre d': Good evening sir and how are we today?::Mr. Creosote: Better.::Maitre d': Better?::Mr. Creosote: Better get a bucket. I'm gonna throw up.
Paitent: What do I do?::Dr. Spenser: Nothing, dear! You're not qualified!
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Actors:
Charles de Gaulle (actor),
Dwight D. Eisenhower (actor),
Michael Byrne (actor),
Michael Caine (actor),
Richard Attenborough (actor),
Winston Churchill (actor),
Ben Cross (actor),
Sean Connery (actor),
Alun Armstrong (actor),
Dirk Bogarde (actor),
Nicholas Campbell (actor),
James Caan (actor),
Erik Chitty (actor),
Peter Faber (actor),
Denholm Elliott (actor),
Plot: This WWII film follows the perspectives of American, Polish and British soldiers attempting to capture key bridges behind German lines in a complicated parachute and armoured assault.
Keywords: 1940s, 50-calibre-machine-gun, airplane, allies, ambush, american-soldier, armor, army, arnhem-holland, attack
Genres:
Drama,
History,
War,
Taglines: Out of the sky comes the screen's most incredible spectacle of men and war!
Quotes:
Field Marshal Model: What can you see?::General Ludwig: Nothing. But they're going to try a river assault.::Field Marshal Model: It will fail.::General Ludwig: Of course. But what do we do if it doesn't?
Corporal Hancock: Sir.::[Offers mug of tea]::Major General Urquhart: Hancock. I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?::Corporal Hancock: Couldn't hurt, sir.::[Urquhart accepts his mug of tea]
Brigadier General Gavin: What's the best way to take a bridge?::Maj. Julian Cook: Both ends at once.::Brigadier General Gavin: I'm sending two companies across the river by boat. I need a man with very special qualities to lead.::Maj. Julian Cook: Go on, sir.::Brigadier General Gavin: He's got to be tough enough to do it and he's got to be experienced enough to do it. Plus one more thing. He's got to be dumb enough to do it... Start getting ready.::U.S. captain: What was all that about, Major?::Maj. Julian Cook: Well someone's come up with a real nightmare. Real nightmare.
[last lines]::Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: I've just been on to Monty. He's very proud and pleased.::Major General Urquhart: Pleased?::Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: Of course. He thinks Market Garden was 90% successful.::Major General Urquhart: But what do you think?::Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: Well, as you know, I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far.
Major General Gunther Blumentritt: Everyone knows you have never lost a battle.::Field Marshall Gerd von Runstedt: I'm still young, give me time.
Field Marshall Walther Model: Why do all my generals want to destroy my bridges?
[Before jumping out of a plane]::Maj. General Stanislaw Sosabowski: God bless Field Marshall Montgomery.
Brig. General James Gavin: So that's it. We're pulling them out. It was Nijmegen.::Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: It was the single road getting to Nijmegen.::Lt. General Horrocks: No, it was after Nijmegen.::Lt. General Frederick "Boy" Browning: And the fog, in England.::Maj. General Stanislaw Sosabowski: Doesn't matter what it was. When one man says to another, "I know what let's do today, let's play the war game."... everybody dies.
Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: Remember what the general said; we're the cavalry. It would be bad form to arrive in advance of schedule. In the nick of time would do nicely.
Lt. General Horrocks: Kickoff will be at 14:35 hours tomorrow afternoon. The Irish Guards under the command of Col. Vandeleur will take the lead.::Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: [sotto voce] Christ, not us again.::Lt. General Horrocks: What'd you say to that, Joe?::Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: Delighted, sir, truly delighted.::Lt. General Horrocks: I've selected you to lead us, not only because of your extraordinary fighting ability, but also because, in the unlikely event the Germans ever get you, they will assume from your attire that they've captured a wretched peasant and immediately send you on your way.
Lupo (1970)
Actors:
Yoram Globus (producer),
Yehuda Barkan (actor),
Yehuda Efroni (actor),
Gabi Amrani (actor),
Menahem Golan (director),
Menahem Golan (writer),
Menahem Golan (producer),
Ken Globus (miscellaneous crew),
Ken Globus (writer),
Leah Koenig (actress),
David Treuherz (editor),
Shoshana Shani (actress),
Moti Giladi (actor),
Nurit Hirsch (composer),
Tsippi Shavit (actress),
Genres:
Drama,
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Actors:
Howard Marion-Crawford (actor),
Corin Redgrave (actor),
Trevor Howard (actor),
Peter Bowles (actor),
James Payne (actor),
T.P. McKenna (actor),
Laurence Harvey (actor),
John Gielgud (actor),
Harry Andrews (actor),
Mark Dignam (actor),
David Hemmings (actor),
Harry Fielder (actor),
Georges Douking (actor),
Vanessa Redgrave (actress),
Norman Rossington (actor),
Plot: A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error of judgement and rash planning on part by the inept British commanders.
Keywords: 1850s, animated-sequence, animated-title-sequence, anti-war, attack, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, battle, battlefield, behind-enemy-lines
Genres:
Drama,
History,
War,
Taglines: "Theirs not to reason why..."
Quotes:
Lord Raglan: Young ladies should concern themselves with what is pretty. England is pretty... babies are pretty... some table linen can be very pretty...
Lord Cardigan: Paymaster? Paymaster Duberley? That ain't a rank, it's a trade!
Lord Raglan: It will be a sad day for England when her armies are officered by men who know too well what they are doing- it smacks of murder.
Mogg: (when a young officer faints at the sight of a man being flogged): Always one of your younger type of hofficer fetches up or flops over. They fades away like Lily at bedtime.
Mogg: [observing a flogging] They won't fight unless they're flogged to it. Would you 'ave them fight for money - or ideas? That would be hun-Christian.
Lord Cardigan: [during the Battle of the Alma] Lucan, you're a stewstick.::Lord Lucan aka George Charles Bingham: Fetch off!::Lord Cardigan: Poltroon.::Lord Lucan aka George Charles Bingham: Bum-roll!::Lord Cardigan: Why don't you draw your horse from round your ears? Bring your head out of his arse.
Lord Cardigan: [returning from the charge] Has anybody seen my regiment?
Lord Cardigan: [looking at a row of tents] If that line's straight, I'm a Turk's arse.
Lord Cardigan: You were born dishonoured and a lie, and you will die in lies!
Lord Cardigan: Well, here goes the last of the Brudenells. The Brigade will advance ! Trumpeter, walk march !
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Actors:
José Ferrer (actor),
Clive Morton (actor),
I.S. Johar (actor),
Howard Marion-Crawford (actor),
Rafael Hernández (actor),
Arthur Kennedy (actor),
Noel Howlett (actor),
John Bennett (actor),
David Lean (actor),
Basil Dignam (actor),
Jack Hawkins (actor),
Alec Guinness (actor),
Harry Fowler (actor),
Henry Oscar (actor),
Peter O'Toole (actor),
Plot: An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in Dorset at the age of 46, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wrecking and camel attacks. Eventually, he leads his army northward and helps a British General destroy the power of the Ottoman Empire.
Keywords: 1910s, 1930s, 70mm-film, abandoned-building, aerial-bombing, air-raid, all-male-cast, anarchy, applause, aqaba-jordan
Genres:
Adventure,
Biography,
Drama,
History,
War,
Taglines: A Mighty Motion Picture Of Action And Adventure! The Desert Classic. (1983 Video Release) An Epic Masterpiece As You've Never Seen It Before! (1992 Restored Video Release) BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR WINNER OF 7 ACADEMY AWARDS (post-Oscar) From the creators of "The Bridge on the River Kwai." A mighty spectacle of action and adventure! (Australia) After five years... the first motion picture from the creators of "The Bridge On The River Kwai." Columbia Pictures presents The Sam Spiegel - David Lean Production of .....
Quotes:
Prince Feisal: You, I suspect, are chief architect of this compromise. What do you think?::Mr. Dryden: Me, your Highness? On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells.
T.E. Lawrence: The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me.
T.E. Lawrence: I'm to "assess the situation".::Colonel Brighton: Hmph! Well that won't be too difficult. The situation's bloody awful.
T.E. Lawrence: Do you think I'm just anybody, Ali? Do you?
Sherif Ali: There is the railway. And that is the desert. From here until we reach the other side, no water but what we carry with us. For the camels, no water at all. If the camels die, we die. And in twenty days they will start to die.::T.E. Lawrence: There's no time to waste, then, is there?
Auda abu Tayi: I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve?::Howeitat tribesmen: NO!::Auda abu Tayi: Does Auda abu Tayi serve?::Howeitat tribesmen: NO!::Auda abu Tayi: [to Lawrence] I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people!
T.E. Lawrence: My friends, we have been foolish. Auda will not come to Aqaba. Not for money...::Auda abu Tayi: No.::T.E. Lawrence: ...for Feisal...::Auda abu Tayi: No!::T.E. Lawrence: ...nor to drive away the Turks. He will come... because it is his pleasure.::[pause]::Auda abu Tayi: Thy mother mated with a scorpion.
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!::T.E. Lawrence: Ah, well, we can't all be lion tamers.
General Allenby: I thought I was a hard man, sir.::Prince Feisal: You are merely a general. I must be a king.
T.E. Lawrence: I pray that I may never see the desert again. Hear me, God.
They Were Not Divided (1950)
Actors:
Christopher Lee (actor),
Desmond Llewelyn (actor),
Ralph Kemplen (editor),
Herbert Smith (producer),
Anthony Dawson (actor),
Terence Young (director),
Terence Young (writer),
Michael Brennan (actor),
Michael Trubshawe (actor),
Edward Underdown (actor),
Peter Burton (actor),
William Sylvester (actor),
Robert Ayres (actor),
Helen Cherry (actress),
Lambert Williamson (composer),
Plot: The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.
Keywords: ardennes, world-war-two
Genres:
War,
Orders Is Orders (1934)
Actors:
Donald Calthrop (actor),
Finlay Currie (actor),
James Gleason (actor),
Cedric Hardwicke (actor),
Ian Hunter (actor),
Ray Milland (actor),
Percy Parsons (actor),
Wally Patch (actor),
Hay Plumb (actor),
Michael Balcon (producer),
Leslie Arliss (writer),
Sidney Gilliat (writer),
James Gleason (writer),
Walter Forde (director),
Ian Dalrymple (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
Keywords: army, army-base, based-on-play, farce
Genres:
Comedy,
