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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305989462
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 630598946X
Label: Vci Video
Manufacturer: Vci Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vci Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 63833
Studio: Vci Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 30, 1965
Editorial Review:
Description:
In Joseph Losey's stirring anti-war film, a tough, no-nonsense British Army lawyer (Dick Bogarde) is assigned to defend a lowly private (Tom Courtenay) at his court martial. The private has been accused of desertion during battle. The lawyer, Captain Hargreaves is convinced this young man should fry. However, as the trial progresses and the strain of three horrible years endured at the Allied front is revealed, the more he is compelled to spare the youth from a firing squad. Winner of the British Academy Award for Best Picture of 1964. Courtenay won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival. Bonus Features: Scene Access| Cast Bios| Original Theatrical Trailer. Specs: DVD5; Dolby Digital Mono; 86 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1964; SRP - $14.99.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - King & Country
A Dirk Bogarde and Jospeph Losey film partnership (that also included The Servant, Modesty Blaze) gives this hard hitting, anti war film a thrilling edge missing from British Cinema of the time. Beautifully judged performances stand out against Losey's rat infested backdrop on the horrors of war.
Rating: - "KIng and Country" won British "best picture" and Courtenay
"best actor" at the Venice Film Festival that year--both well-deserved honors. Courtenay's cockney and young, fair face with his sometimes affect-less eyes (which I attribute not to stupidity, but to shell-shock: how many stupid men respond "I don't know" to every question of motive put to them?) and Bogarde's crisp, precise English, his dark, expressive eyes, often belying the lack of expression in his face--are perfect foils for each other.
If this is a sound stage--it's the wettest ... Read More
Rating: - To encourage the others
Despite contentious subject matter - a World War One court martial for desertion - and the melodramatic weaknesses of the source material (John Wilson's radio play Hamp and J.L. Hodson's novel Return to the Wood), Joseph Losey's King and Country admirably avoids most of the clichés and preconceptions of its day in favor of something much more even-handed and unsensationalized, and consequently its matter-of-fact approach is much more powerful: indeed, the final moments almost unbearably so. Tom Courtney ... Read More
Rating:  - Losey & Bogarde's worthy follow-up to The Servant
The year prior to making King & Country, director Joseph Losey and actor Dirk Bogarde had made their break-through film The Servant and scored a major critical success, becoming one of the leading actor-director teams of the English-language art-house circuit of the 1960s. King & Country was their follow-up, and it was a worthy one. The film concerns a private (Tom Courtenay) who deserts and is court-martialed during WWI. Bogarde plays the officer who defends him -- reluctantly at first, more sympathetically ... Read More
Rating: - Bad sound and no subtitles
Despite its interesting subject this DVD release is a technical failure. The sound is bad and forsomebody that English is not his mothertongue it is very difficult to understand. Why the producer of this important DVD did not work a little bit harder to to put a subtitle feature for hearing impared people as well for less knowledgeable people in English. The subtitle feature should be a routine feature no matter what language is spoken in the movie. I was very disappointed by its quality.
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