King & Country

The voice of accused deserter "Hamp" (Tom Courtenay) with the opening lines of the A.E. Houseman poem known by its first line, continuing director Joseph Losey's opening, also introducing officers Webb (Barry Foster) and Hargreaves (Dirk Bogarde), in the WWI drama King & Country, 1964.

From the first interview by British military attorney Hargreaves (Dirk Bogarde), who began with little sympathy for accused deserter "Hamp" (Tom Courtenay), near the front in Belgium, circa 1917, in Joseph Losey's King & Country, 1964.

Arresting opening from director Joseph Losey, with the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park and its quote from Henry V, from the World War I drama King & Country, 1964, starring Tom Courtenay and Dirk Bogarde.