Joseph Losey's King & Country was made on the 50th year anniversary of the start of the Great War. That fact alone convinced me that they made it deliberately to memorialize the war and to distill, in 90 minutes, the shock and stress of the war on several generations of men. We should thank them and remember the film, and the war, forever. Recounting one terrible episode about one man through art leaves an indelible image worth thousands of non-fiction pages. This searing, grim, and painful portrayal was inspired by two separate works, a contemporary stage play and a book from a decade earlier, so Evan Jones the screenwriter also deserves tremendous recognition for what's shown on screen. Tom Courtenay and Dirk Bogarde are outstanding, the visual images disturbing, and the story itself terrifying.
Review of King & Country
