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When a British Indian Army colonel is dishonorably discharged, he returns to London. His four sons a student at Oxford, a London barrister, an aviator and playboy, and an attache at the British Embassy in Washington rally round to support him. He tells them he is the victim of a conspiracy before he is found dead, apparently having killed himself. John Ford directed this sprawling saga that follows the four young men as they seek to unc