BIG Kilt Movie TONITE! TCM

[g koch]

Drums (1938) is showing at 12:00 AM EST on Turner Classic Movies.

Kilts! Guns! Kilts! Empire! Kilts!

12:00am [Adventure] Drums (1938)
An Indian prince tries to save his (KILTED) British masters from a deadly revolt.
Cast: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson. Dir: Zoltan Korda. BW-94 mins, TV-G

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030082/

[Coemgen]

I'm going to have to Tivo this!

[Jock Scot]

I watched it over here a couple of weeks ago and yes, there are quite a few kilts!

[An t-Ileach]

I remember going to see that as a small boy - my grandfather took me. It was called The Drum in the UK, and Drums in the USA. Roger Livesey played Captain Carruthers, didn't he? And Raymond Massey was some Indian rajah.

The story was by A. E. W. Mason, who famously wrote The Four Feathers about the relief of Khartoum. He served in the Manchester Regiment and then the Royal Marines Light Infantry in World War I, leaving as a Major, so he had first-hand experience of what he was writing about. I think he wrote a few short stories that were published in The Boy's Own Paper, mostly about deeds of derring-do in the Empire. All frightfully politically incorrect, of course.

[Jack Daw]

You forgot to mention that it stars Roger Livesey, by gum! I have this on VHS Tape as I have not found a Blu-ray dvd version, yet.

[pipesndrumsnun]

Kilts - YEA!!

12 am - BOO!!

[Woodsheal]

Is it Raymond Massey night? "The Prisoner of Zenda" is on right now....

[macwilkin]

Roger Livesey played Captain Carruthers, didn't he?

The same Roger Livesey who played General Clive Wynne-Candy of the Loamshires in The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp.

It's been ages since I've seem Drums, but from what I remember it was a ripping yarn!

All frightfully politically incorrect, of course.

Well said that man.

I happened to be watching another movie of that ilk this morning -- The Guns at Batasi -- no kilts, but Sir Richard Attenborough as RSM Lauderdale!

Yours aye,

Todd

[Finn]

Hmmm... I might be up...

[Mael Coluim]

What luck to have stumbled on your thread! Just turned in at 12:05. Here is a photo of my great uncle James Robertson with the Liverpool Kings in India during this time. Uncle Jim is standing.