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Conduct Unbecoming (Original title)
Dates: 04 November 1974 (), 1975 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Michael Anderson

Synopsis: 19th century India. A young Lieutenant unjustly accused of assaulting an officer's widow is brought to trial by his fellow officers in the Twentieth Indian Light Calvary. The outcome is unexpected.

Genres:
Period drama, Legal and Courtroom drama

Subject:
Military
Releases
Date: 1975Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 107 mins Length: 9663 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (31)
©: Lion International, ©: Somerville House Securities, Production Company: Crown Production Company, Presents: Somerville House Releasing, Produced by: Michael Deeley, Produced by: Barry Spikings, Co-producer: Andrew Donally, Production Supervisor: John Peverall, Assistant Director: David Anderson, Assistant Director: Terry Churcher, Continuity: Penny Daniels, Screenplay by: Robert Enders, From the play by: Barry England, Director of Photography: Bob Huke, Camera Operator: John Harris, Assistant Camera: Cedric James, Film Editor: John Glen, Art Director: Ted Tester, Set Decorator: John Jarvis, Construction: Terry Apsey, Costumes Designed by: Elizabeth Haffenden, Joan Bridge, Wardrobe: Tiny Nicholls, Make-up: Tom Smith, Hairdressing: Bobbie Smith, Music by: Stanley Myers, Sound Recordist: George Stephenson, Sound Recordist: Ken Scrivener, Sound Editor: Bill Taylor, Made at: Shepperton Studio Centre - England
Cast (19)
Michael York (2nd Lt Arthur Drake), Richard Attenborough (Major Lionel Roach), Trevor Howard (Colonel Benjamin Strang), Stacy Keach (Captain Harper), Christopher Plummer (Major Alastair Wimbourne), Susannah York (Mrs Marjorie Scarlett), James Faulkner (2nd Lt. Edward Millington), Michael Culver (2nd Lt. Richard Fothergill), James Donald (doctor), Rafiq Anwar (Pradah Singh), Helen Cherry (Mrs Strang), Michael Fleming (Lt. Frank Hart), David Robb (2nd Lt. Edward Winters), David Purcell (2nd Lt. Simon Boulton), Andrew Lodge (2nd Lt. Frank Hutton), David Neville (2nd Lt. John Truly), Persis Khambatta (Mrs Bandanai), Michael Byrne (2nd Lt. Toby Strang), Jamila Massey (servant)