Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TRIPLE ECHO finds Glenda Jackson waiting out World War II on a tumbledown farm deep in the English countryside. Her husband is a P.O.W. in Japan, so she takes a lover, a young soldier (Brian Deacon) who so enjoys her company and so dislikes the army that he deserts. To explain his presence to the curious townspeople, and to thwart suspicion in general, Jackson dresses her lover up as her sister and has him doing the chores in drag. He resists at first, but then comes to like it a little, enough to accept a Christmas-dance date with...
...students said he was from ABC television and asked Coppersmith for permission to take pictures of the drum at Soldier's Field for publicity of the Harvard-Brown game...
Rainie said when they got to Soldier's Field, the Brown students told Coppersmith and Everett they were from Yale and they were taking the drum to New Haven...
Tetirick gets into his orange Toyota Corolla sports car at about 3 p.m. each practice day, drives to Soldier's Field, parks behind Dillon and psyches himself for another day's supply of footballs...
...group's irascible Italian captain spleening his personal vendetta against il Duce. The dominant black vernacular, if slightly too contemporary to be authentic, brings some new life to tired old combat comedy situations, and here and there some jewels sparkle: during an exchange of insults, one soldier is told, "You got enough ugly to open a branch face." In what must be an inevitable comparison with the scalpel wit and truly black comedy of M*A*S*H*, however, the sad fact is that Roll Out seems as old-fashioned...