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HAMP. A sweet but Simple Simon gives in to panic at the front during World War I, and is punished by a military machine that cannot afford to temper steeliness with compassion. Robert Salvio gives a most sympathetic interpretation of Private...
HAMP. John Wilson probes the conflict between discipline and compassion in an absorbing drama about a court-martial amidst the guns of World War I. Robert Salvio's portrayal of Private Hamp, a pebble of innocence crushed by the inexorable wheels of the military machine, is both sensitive and touching...
HAMP. John Wilson probes the conflict between discipline and compassion in an absorbing drama about a court-martial amidst the guns of World War I. Robert Salvio's portrayal of Private Hamp, a pebble of innocence crushed by the inexorable wheels of the military machine is both sensitive and touching...
...lawyer-lieutenant (Michael Lipton) chosen to defend Hamp is aloof, yet earnest, and thoroughly determined to help him. But Hamp (Robert Salvio) is hard to help precisely because he is a simple soul of truth, a pebble of innocence without a tongue-wag of self-protective deviousness in his nature. He ran away, he tells his lawyer and the court, because one day the mud-and-blood bath of battle got to be too much for him. He doesn't have the foggiest idea if he ever intended coming back to his outfit. All he knows is that...