Guy Ritchie’s spy action comedy The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare is streaming on Prime Video now, but what songs are on the soundtrack?
The film tells a fictionalised version of Operation Postmaster, a British special operation during the Second World War that was tasked with sabotaging Nazi plans and supporting resistance movements in overseas territories.
Ritchie co-wrote the film with Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson and Arash Amel, and it was based on the 2014 book Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis.
Henry Cavill takes the lead role of Gus March-Phillips, one of the leading British spies of the era, with Rory Kinnear playing Churchill. Cary Elwes, Alex Pettyfer, Henry Golding and Eiza Gonzalez co-star.
This marks Cavill’s second collaboration with Ritchie following on from 2015’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. He is also set to reunite with the director on In The Grey, an action adventure set for release in January 2025.
It is a prolific period for Ritchie, with Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Covenant, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, both arriving within the last year. He also debuted a TV spin-off of The Gentlemen on Netflix in March.
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare received a cinematic release in the US in April, but never did in the UK, arriving for the first time for British viewers on Amazon Prime Video on July 25.
Here’s every song in The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The film includes an original score from Christopher Benstead, who has become Ritchie’s regular composer in recent years.
The original trailer for the film includes a version of Queen’s ‘Another One Bites The Dust’, produced and arranged by Geek Music.
That song is not included in the film itself, but some other pieces of music do feature.
Lalo Schifrin’s ‘The School Bus’, originally written for the 1971 Clint Eastwood classic Dirty Harry, finds its way onto the soundtrack.
Two more selections are present too: ‘Die Moritat von Mackie Messer’ by Bertolt Brecht, the original German version of the song that came to be known as ‘Mack The Knife’, is included, as is Chopin’s ‘Raindrop’ prelude, as recorded by Nikolai Lugansky.
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