The Queen's Guards (1961)

Name: The Queen's Guards
Genre: Drama
Released: 1961-10-17

1h 49m

Running Time

Plot.

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.

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Details.

Release Date
October 17, 1961

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 49m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-10

Wiki.

The Queen's Guards is a 1961 British military drama film directed by Michael Powell from a script by Simon Harcourt-Smith and Roger Milner. It stars Daniel Massey, Raymond Massey, Robert Stephens, and Ursula Jeans.

Principal photography on The Queen's Guards began several months after the release of Powell's Peeping Tom, the outcry over which eventually ensured that The Queen's Guards would be Powell's last feature film directed in Britain.

Powell later called the film "the most inept piece of filmmaking that I have ever produced or directed. I didn't write the story (weak) or the screenplay (abysmal) but I take all the flak."