Two Men Went To War

Two dentists in the British Army want to see action in 1942. When the job they are given does not provide it, they leave their unit without permission. The two of them decide to cross into occupied France on their own. The film tells this not as an epic of heroism but in a tone close to comedy. The state of people who want to be of use in a war and whose turn never comes is the real subject. What they do is both brave and entirely against the rules, and the film holds the two together. The story sets out from something that really happened. Kenneth Cranham and Leo Bill appear in John Henderson’s hundred and nine minute British film, completed in 2002.