For King and Country

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For King and Country is a short film directed by Neil Carroll in 2007.

The event occurs in Belgium (Poperinge Military Prison in Flanders) during the First World War. Two soldiers, Captain Phillip Levaul-Grimwood and Second Lieutenant Edward Brennan are facing their last few hours together. At dawn, one of them will be executed for desertion. But maybe not who you'd think of ...

The movie is mainly a huit-clot. The main action happens in the cell where the Captain (a Chaplain) and the Second Lieutenant are talking, with two outside flash-backs. The rhythm is slow, oppressive. The sepia coloring and the dim lights add also to that effect.

This movie, shot in two days with Hollyoaks fame Nick Pickard and Matt Littler, is dedicated to the 346 British and Commonwealth soldiers shot at dawn between 1914-1918.

1 Cast
2 Crew
3 Quotes
4 Related Links

[edit] Cast

Role	Actor
Captain Phillip Levaul-Grimwood	Nick Pickard
Second Lieutenant Edward Brennan	Matt Littler
Sergent Robert Lynch	Martin Joyce

[edit] Crew

Job	Who
Writers	Ross Knowles & Jarrod Edgerton
Director	Neil Carroll
1st Assistant Director	Becky Maxwell
2nd Assistant Director	Duncan Laing
Scripts Supervisors	Koreen Hollings & Kate Moran
Lighting Cameraman	Craig Forster
Camera Operator	Lee Skelly
Camera Assistant	Dean Straffon
Gaffer	Paul Dempster
Art Director	Sian Garden
Standby Props	Nick Franklin
Make-up	Hazel Smith & Corrin Smith
Sound Mixer	Reg Cameron
Boom Operator	Chris Anderson
Set Painter	Eddie Ward
Editor	Jeffrey Corrin
Dubbing Mixer	Keith Theobald

[edit] Quotes

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"Our future is decided not by chance, but by the choices we make" (Grimwood)

"[...] the great honor of seeing your friends and comrades die, and being thanksful the bullet took them and not you. And if you do survive, it's your duty to do it all again the next day" (Brennan)

"I didn't see right to stand there and watch. I had to be there for my men. For their body and souls. There's no point of saving a man's soul after he has been blown to pieces. I thought if I was there, fighting with them by their side, I could like maybe help them." (Grimwood)

"For King and Country" (Brennan)

"I was more concerned with God than the other two. I felt if I could extend the hand of God, then it was my duty to do so." (Grimwood)

"This isn't a crusade. It's a fight for money, power and dominance." (Brennan)