Word: dirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) takes an excruciating look at a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay again) who is doomed to die and at the anguished officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend...
KING AND COUNTRY. A private's progress from firing line to firing squad is the substance of Director Joseph (The Servant) Losey's painful, stirringly played World War I drama about an inarticulate deserter (Tom Courtenay) and his anguished defender (Dirk Bogarde...
KING AND COUNTRY. A private's progress from firing line to firing squad is the substance of Director Joseph (The Servant) Losey's painful, stirringly played World War I drama about an inarticulate deserter (Tom Courtenay) and his anguished defender (Dirk Bogarde...
...having a ball, as you Americans say, but if he gets a big head because of it, he's expected to keep it under his helmet and do his job." With an $84-a-week road allowance and more party invitations than they can shake a dirk at, the troops find that the helmets fit tightly at times. "We have reports of dancing and some roistering," says Brigadier MacLean, but "touch wood," there have been no complaints about the men's behavior to date...
...members of Hamp's firing squad are his friends; some of them aim to miss, and when he falls, he is still alive. Captain Hargreaves (Dirk Bogarde) cradles the dying man's head in his arm. "Isn't it finished yet, Hamp?" he asks gently, and the barely audible answer is: "No, sir-I'm sorry...