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2023 · Drama · War & politics
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TV series / 1967
Sword of Honour
Sword of Honour is a three-part miniseries produced as part of the anthology Theatre 625, and broadcast on BBC2, based on Evelyn Waugh's 1952–61 novels of the same name. It stars Edward Woodward as 35-year-old Englishman Guy Crouchback, who returns home from Italy at the start of WWII, determined to fight the good fight. Horrified by Nazi barbarism and emotionally shattered by a painful divorce, Crouchback eagerly accepts a post with the elite Royal Corps …
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Sword of Honour is a three-part miniseries produced as part of the anthology Theatre 625, and broadcast on BBC2, based on Evelyn Waugh's 1952–61 novels of the same name. It stars Edward Woodward as 35-year-old Englishman Guy Crouchback, who returns home from Italy at the start of WWII, determined to fight the good fight. Horrified by Nazi barbarism and emotionally shattered by a painful divorce, Crouchback eagerly accepts a post with the elite Royal Corps of Halberdiers.
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Cast
Edward WoodwardGuy Crouchback
Vivian PicklesVirginia
Trader FaulknerTommy Backhouse
Kenneth FortescueFrank de Souza
James VilliersIan Kilbannock
Donald Layne-SmithMr Crouchback
Paul HardwickRitchie-Hook
Anthony RoyeBox-Bender
Freddie JonesLudovic
Sarah LawsonKerstie
Tim PreeceTrimmer
Richard HamptonShanks
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Barry LinehanChatty Corner
Nicholas HawtreyTickeridge
Geoffrey WincottElderberry
Clifford CoxColour Sergeant
Ronald FraserApthorpe
Jimmy GardnerCrock
Richard KayLeonard
David SavileSarum-Smith
Ian RickettsMcKinney
Keith PyottMr Goodall
Denis McCarthyBrigadier
Pamela RuddockMrs Tickeridge
Esmond WebbDoctor
Mark BurnsTony Box-Bender
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