Triple Echo (The)
- Director: Michael Apted
- Writer: H.E. Bates; Robin Chapman
- Producer: Zelda Barron; Graham Cottle
CGiii Comment
Odd...in that, how did this ever get made? And...with two of the biggest actors of their generation? It beggars belief...resulting in a tussle between this and the abominable All the Queen's Men for the Worst-cross-dressing-military-film-ever-made Award.
Needless to say that the Gender ideologists have reclaimed this film alongside the preposterous 1971 penile-transplant film, Percy - and that is all we've got to say about Gender Ideology.
Basically, this is a three-hander...composed of two heavyweights [who were left to their own devices] and a wet-behind-the-ears lightweight who needed more direction from the direction-light Michael Apted. When such inexperience is pitched against cinematic stalwarts, the result is rarely satisfying.
The Triple Echo will forever remain a curiosity, its renaissance is as bamboozling as the Gender Ideology that tore it from its exile. As they say...nowt as queer as folk!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Barton is a soldier in WW2 England; he meets Alice, who is looking after her farm single-handed as her husband is a prisoner of the Japanese. Barton stays overnight and they get friendly, and he decides to desert and stay with Alice. They become lovers. As a cover, she tells people in the village that her sister is staying with her, and Barton dresses the part. He has mixed feelings about the feminine role but evidently grows accustomed to it. Eventually an army sergeant comes to the farm, and is glad to learn that there are two unattached women there; he has sexual designs on them. Alice rebuffs him and he concentrates on Barton, as 'Cathy'. Barton is flattered by the attention, and foolishly agrees to go to a Christmas dance at the army base with the sergeant, obviously not realising that sexual activity will be involved, despite Alice's warnings. At the party, Barton realises what is developing, but can't escape, and the Sergeant won't take no for an answer.
Cast & Characters
Glenda Jackson as Alice;
Oliver Reed as Sergeant;
Brian Deacon as Barton;
Anthony May as Subaltern;
Gavin Richards as Stan;
Jenny Lee Wright as Christine;
Kenneth Colley as Provo Corporal;
Daphne Heard as Shopkeeper;
Zelah Clarke as First Girl;
Colin Rix as Compere;
Ioan Meredith as Guard