The Triple Echo is a 1972 British drama film directed by Michael Apted starring Glenda Jackson, Brian Deacon and Oliver Reed, and based on a novella by H. E. Bates. Michel Apted was nominated a Golden Prize Award for the film at the Moscow International Film Festival. In England during WWII, Alice, a woman running a farm in the countryside, discovers a man named Barton roaming the fields. He helps around the farm and the two become friends, then lovers. Barton decides to desert the army. Alice offers him refuge in exchange for help running the farm in her husband's absence, who has been... taken prisoner by the Japanese. Barton puts Alice's ailing dog out of its misery by shooting it with her husband's shotgun. When army MPs begin to search for Barton he must prevent himself from being caught, so Alice helps him form the disguise of a woman, Jill, her "sister." A Sergeant soon begins to take a liking to Jill. As Christmas approaches, the Sergeant returns to invite Alice and Jill to a Christmas party. Alice declines, but Barton, wanting to get out and have some fun, accepts the offer much to Alice's disapproval.
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| Release date: | 1972 |
| Directed by: | Michael Apted |
| Runtime: | 94 Minutes |
| Cinematography: | John Coquillon |
| Screenplay by: | Robin Chapman |
| Adapted from: | Triple Echo |