
A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.
Cast

Edward Petherbridge
Lt. Osborne

Jeremy Northam
Captain Stanhope
Mark Payton
Lt. Raleigh

Timothy Spall
Lt. Trotter

Gary Cady
2nd Lt. Hibbert

Dorian Healy
Mason

George Baker
Colonel

Clive Swift
Captain Hardy

John Forgeham
Company Sergeant Major
Anthony Herrick
Intelligence Officer
Russell Gomer
Corporal Crooks
Ian Pike
2nd Lt. Evans

Paul David-Gough
Young Lieutenant

Ben Shockley
Private Evans
John Hoye
Tea Soldier
Jonathan Donne
Hardy's Lieutenant

Tomasz Borkowy
German Soldier
Rob Lane
Lieutenant
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