The Triple Echo (1972) DVD Color Approx. 92 Min. Shown in original aspect ratio. (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Optional English subtitles / close captions Starring: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon, Anthony May, Gavin Richards, Jenny Lee Wright, and Kenneth Colley. Written by Robin Chapman, from the novel "The Triple Echo" by H. E. Bates. Directed by Michael Apted. After her husband is captured by the Japanese during WWII, homesteader Alice (Glenda Jackson) is forced to maintain their land herself. One day, a wandering soldier named Barton (Brian Deacon) stops by the farm and the pair begin a relationship. When the military police pass through the area looking for deserters, Barton is forced to disguise himself as a woman to stay with Alice. But he soon catches the eye of a sergeant (Oliver Reed) posted nearby. “Would you go A.W.O.L. with this man?” According to the British Board of Censors in 1972 THE TRIPLE ECHO was passed as X (original rating).
