King & Country (1964)

Directors

Joseph Losey

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster, Peter Copley

The story

During the First World War in 1917, in the British trenches at Passchendaele, Private Arthur Hamp is accused of desertion. He is to be defended at his trial by Captain Hargreaves. Hamp had been a volunteer at the outbreak of the war and was the sole survivor of his company, but then decided to "go for a walk"; he had contemplated walking to his home in London but after more than 24 hours on the road, he is picked up by the Military Police and sent back to his unit to face court-martial for desertion.

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