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2 January 2001 (UK) morePlot Keywords:
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3 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Much, much better than we'd any right to expect. moreCast
(Credited cast) | Will Adamsdale | ... | HOO headquarters officer |
 | Nick Bartlett | ... | Popforce soldier |
| Christopher Benjamin | ... | Doctor |
| Peter Blythe | ... | Gen. Graves |
 | Nicholas Boulton | ... | Bertie |
| Monica Brady | ... | Hotel receptionist |
| Rony Bridges | ... | Party guest |
| Tim Briggs | ... | Sgt. Glass |
| Selina Cadell | ... | Angela Crouchback |
| Rebecca Cardinale | ... | Italian woman |
 | Katrin Cartlidge | ... | Julia Stitch |
| Simon Chandler | ... | Maj. Irvine |
| Pauline Chan | ... | Tam |
| Josh Cole | ... | Sapper Capt. Beech |
| Richard Coyle | ... | Trimmer McTavish |
 | Daniel Craig | ... | Guy Crouchback |
| Graham Crammond | ... | Bellamy's barman |
| Abigail Cruttenden | ... | Kerstie Kilbannock |
| Robert Daws | ... | Maj. Hound |
 | Megan Dodds | ... | Virginia |
| Christoph Dostal | ... | Blackshirt #1 |
 | Dan Fredenburgh | ... | Radio operator |
| Pier Gardini | ... | Blackshirt #2 |
 | Adam Godley | ... | Apthorpe |
| Ray Greenhill | ||
| Peter Gunn | ... | Sgt. Tozer |
| Patrick Hannaway | ... | Drill sergeant |
| Harry Harrison | ... | Squad sergeant |
| Guy Henry | ... | Ludovic |
| William Hope | ... | General Clayton |
 | Sidney Kean | ... | Capo blackshirt |
| Chris Lennard | ... | Dakar Beach soldier |
| Joseph Long | ... | Italian priest |
| Nick Lucas | ... | Halberdier lecturer |
| Clunie Mackenzie | ... | Mrs. Tickeridge |
| Stephen Mangan | ... | Frank De Souza |
 | Ivan Marevich | ... | Bakic |
| Lloyd McGuire | ... | Mugging victim |
 | Sean McKenzie | ... | Sgt. Smiley |
| Richard Norton | ... | Australian sergeant |
| Robert Paterson | ... | Stratton concierge |
| Edward Petherbridge | ... | Perigrin Crouchback |
| Leslie Phillips | ... | Gervase Crouchback |
 | Robert Pugh | ... | Brig. Ritchie-Hook |
| Julian Rhind-Tutt | ... | Ian Kilbannock |
 | Serge Soric | ... | Partisan General |
| Craig Stokes | ... | Destroyer nurse |
| Malcolm Storry | ... | Maj. Tickeridge |
| Geoffrey Streatfield | ... | Eddie |
| Rupert Vansittart | ... | Commander-in-Chief |
| Mark Wakeling | ... | Halberdier sergeant |
| Damian Warren | ... | Australian Sergeant |
 | James Weber-Brown | ... | Tommy Blackhouse |
| Simon Williams | ... | Maj. Sprat |
 | Tom Wisdom | ... | Ivor Claire |
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'Sword of Honour' can be seen as an update of the Boultings' 'Pilgrim's Progress' - an anachronistic idealist fights in World War Two for reasons of chivalric honour, only to see the world overrun by liars, cheats, murderers, cowards and lunatics; where decency is pointless, even dangerous.
William Boyd's restructuring of Waugh's war trilogy is a miracle of adaptation - his leavening of verbal humour with slapstick; his capturing of Waugh's elliptical tone; his creation of haunting visual patterns acting as counterpoint to the horrific satire that is the war. There is one haunting sequence amid so much disintegration, the false bomb warning during Virginia's post-natal party, that magically hints at forces beyond man's self-defeating endeavour, while also rescuing a character Waugh was rather hard on. In the moral sense.