The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a spy action comedy directed by Guy Ritchie and co-written with Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, and Arash Amel, is now streaming on Prime Video. The film is a fictionalized version of Operation Postmaster, a British special operation during World War II tasked with sabotaging Nazi plans and supporting resistance movements in overseas territories.
Henry Cavill takes on the lead role of Gus March-Phillips, one of the leading British spies of the era, while Rory Kinnear portrays Churchill. Cary Elwes, Alex Pettyfer, Henry Golding, and Eiza Gonzalez co-star. Cavill previously worked with Ritchie in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and is set to reunite with him on In The Grey, an action adventure slated for release in January 2025.
Christopher Benstead, who has become Ritchie’s regular composer in recent years, created an original score for the film. While the original trailer includes a version of Queen’s ‘Another One Bites The Dust,’ produced and arranged by Geek Music, this song is not in the actual film. However, the film does feature Lalo Schifrin’s ‘The School Bus,’ originally written for the 1971 Clint Eastwood classic Dirty Harry, as well as two other selections: Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Die Moritat von Mackie Messer,’ the original German version of the song that came to be known as ‘Mack The Knife,’ and Chopin’s ‘Raindrop’ prelude, recorded by Nikolai Lugansky.
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare received a theatrical release in the United States in April but was not released in the United Kingdom until it arrived on Amazon Prime Video on July 25th. It’s the latest accomplishment for Ritchie, who has been on a roll recently with a TV spin-off of The Gentlemen on Netflix and two new films: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Covenant
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