Director:
Joseph Losey
see also:
The Sleeping Tiger
The Servant
Accident
Modesty Blaise
Screenplay:
Evan Jones (from play ‘Hamp’ by John Wilson
based on a story by James Lansdale Hodson)
Role:
Captain Hargreaves
King And Country (1964)
In LoseyÁs compelling, claustrophobic
drama, Dirk plays Captain Hargreaves, the initially reluctant
defending officer at the court-martial of a First World
War deserter (Tom Courtenay). The film, which belongs
firmly in the tradition of Paths of Glory and
La grande illusion, and was chosen as the British
entry for the Venice Festival, has a renewed topicality.
