The Wednesday Play

Mad Jack (6x19)

: 04, 1970

Jack Gold directs Tom Clarke's play about a soldier turned dissident during the First World War. Protest has become easy and respectable now. But for a young subaltern in 1917 to speak out against the horrors of the Western Front was unthinkable. One did. Second-Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, a young English country gentleman who made public his revulsion against the war. This film tells of the week in a Liverpool hotel when Sassoon re-examined his protest in spite of its complete rejection by authority and the public. Starring Michael Jayston, Michael Pennington and Clive Swift.