The Triple Echo [1972] [DVD]Glenda Jackson (actor) Brian
Deacon (actor) Format: all-region dvd (worldwide) Runtime: 94 min Quality: Excellent
Adapted from a novel by HE Bates and set on a remote farm in 1942, this unlikely drama might have provoked a few unintentional smirks if it hadn't been so sensitively played by
Glenda Jackson and Brian Deacon.
Michael Apted's careful direction makes the ruse of disguising deserter Deacon as Jackson's sister seem almost credible, while his re-creation of the tranquil
wartime countryside makes the abrupt intrusion of vulgar sergeant Oliver Reed all the more foreboding.
The bawdy tone of the later stages is as unnecessary as it is unwelcome, but it doesn't
detract too much from what has gone before. |