The Queen’s Guards – 1961 | 110 mins | Drama | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Captains John Fellowes and Henry Wynne-Walton pass through their training at Sandhurst and are sent to the Middle East; John to lead a paratroop regiment while Henry commands a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Brigade. John’s father, a disabled ex-Guards officer, constantly compares him to his elder brother David, killed in the desert during the war, while his mother still hopes that David is alive and will one day return. Discovering the truth about his brother’s death, John determines during his own desert campaign to match his brother’s courage and actions. As the Trooping the Colour ceremony takes place, with John leading the Escort and Henry leading the Sovereign’s Escort, Captain Fellowes watches the parade, finally proud of his second son.