Rent The Triple Echo (1972)
3.4 of 5 from 58 ratings
1h 28min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Glenda Jackson, Brian Deacon and Oliver Reed star in this romantic drama set in England during WWII. Alice (Jackson) lives alone on her rural farm after her husband's incarceration in a Japanese POW camp. The arrival of Barton (Deacon), a deserting soldier, prompts a relationship to develop between the pair and in order to prevent detection from the military police roaming the countryside for deserters Alice helps Barton to disguise himself as a woman. However, when a sergeant (Reed) pays them a visit and takes a liking to Barton, completely unaware of the transformation, his coarse advances lead to tragic consequences.
- Actors:
- Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon, Anthony May, Gavin Richards, Jenny Lee Wright, Kenneth Colley, Daphne Heard, Zelah Clarke, Colin Rix, Ioan Meredith
- Directors:
- Michael Apted
- Producers:
- Graham Cottle
- Writers:
- H.E. Bates, Robin Chapman
- Aka:
- Soldier in Skirts
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1972-2012, British WWII Films: The Home Front and Europe, Drama Films & TV, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Films of 1972, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/03/2019
- Run Time:
- 94 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- A Matter of Life and Death (2019, 15 mins): director Michael Apted reflects on his feature debut and its place within his prolific career
- Identity Crises (2019, 29 mins): actor Brian Deacon recalls his first film role starring alongside Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed
- A Different Perspective (2019, 25 mins): editor Barrie Vince recalls shaping and structuring the film
- Dressing Up (2019, 9 mins): costume designer Emma Porteous on the challenges of recreating an authentic wardrobe for The Triple Echo
- The Emotion of the Moment (2019, 8 mins): composer Marc Wilkinson discusses highlights from his score
- A Sense of Justice (2019, 23 mins): an in-depth appreciation by author and film historian Neil Sinyard 9 Super 8 version: original cut-down home-cinema presentation
- Original Theatrical Trailer, edited by the legendary Jean Fouchet
- Teaser Trailer
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- World premiere on Blu-ray
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Reviews (1) of The Triple Echo
Wartime Romance Drama - The Triple Echo review by GI
Director Michael Apted's first feature film adapted from a short novel by H.E. Bates and like Bates' novels this captures the eerie splendidness of the English countryside in this warped romance. Glenda Jackson plays Alice who faithfully tenders her family farm during the Second World War with her husband a prisoner of war. One day she finds a young soldier, Barton (Brian Deacon), wandering across her fields and invites him to share a meal. Soon they become lovers and Barton, a conscript who hates the army, decides to go AWOL and stay with Alice who has the idea to pass him off as her sister, Jill. But 'Jill' finds she is appealing to a bullish army sergeant (Oliver Reed) a situation that increases the risk of discovery for Barton and Alice. Reed is inspired casting here, frightening yet somehow vulnerable too and Jackson is excellent as the lonely woman who briefly finds comfort in the arms of a younger man. An interesting British drama that has probably been forgotten nowadays but worth checking out to see Reed and Jackson together on screen in another memorable partnership following Women In Love (1969).
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