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Costumes 1 Credit. It continuously asserts the racial superiority of the British and at the same time shows that such superiority no longer provides any guarantee of authority or power. AKA: Les canons de Batasi. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of "Theme From "Guns At Batasi"" on Discogs. Guns at Batasi is a film directed by John Guillermin with Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow .... Year: 1964. Guns at Batasi . Your email address will not be published. An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care. When a rebellion breaks out in the capital of the newly-independent nation of Batasi, Colonel Deal is ordered to confine all British Army personnel to quarters and to turn over his command of a mixed Anglo-African regiment to a native African officer, Captain Abraham. 1964; 1 hr 43 mins Drama NR Watchlist. 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