by Tom Clarke

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, directed by Jack Gold, 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.
(One man's protest: page 10)