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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...
...ordeal of Hamp and of the officers who condemn him to death is the whole action of this painful, stirring film, which could easily have been nothing more than a sentimental antiwar movie about the little man and the big machine. But Director-Producer Joseph Losey, whose movie The Servant won eight British Film Academy nominations and four awards, has made King and Country a pity-and-terror-filled drama of death against life, and law against justice...
...chap named Hedges is met at the front door by Mrs. Hedges, who hands him a stiff shot of sherry and a nasty bit of news: he is now, and for several months has been, a cuckold. A bit of rough weather, that. But as a British civil servant, Hedges takes a firm grip on his brolly and does the decent thing. Even after his wife divorces him and marries the other bloke, he still sends her birthday cards and occasionally advances the new couple a few quid to keep things going. People call him a chump, and Hedges...
RAPTURE. Patricia Gozzi, 15, gives a blazing performance as an emotionally starved child living in a lonely farmhouse on the Brittany coast with her bitter recluse of a father (Melvyn Douglas) and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom...
THESE ARE THE DAMNED. Goose bumps abound at an English coastal resort, where Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) brings his razzle-dazzle skills to bear on a heavily guarded secret project that is infiltrated by a tourist (MacDonald Carey) and a trollop (Shirley Anne Field...