OLIVER REED AND GLENDA JACKSON IN 'THE TRIPLE ECHO'

Title: THE TRIPLE ECHO Year: 1972 Rating: ****

In any movie where a man has to dress up like a woman, for whatever reason, there's the one genuine manly male who wants to give that so-called female a test ride wherein the truth will be discovered... 

So when it's stocky firebrand Oliver Reed as a World War II era tank sergeant, lusting after a deserted soldier hiding out in widowed Glenda Jackson's rural chicken farm while (romancing her and) posing as his sister, this otherwise searing romantic drama turns into a heated, nightmarish thriller...

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

That's because Reed (reunited with his WOMEN IN LOVE co-star Jackson yet sharing more scenes opposite fitfully feminine/literal pretty boy Brian Deacon) is like a bomb ready to explode: in more ways than one... 

And he's never been so frightening and formidable, also providing Michael Apted's THE TRIPLE ECHO a sense of horror and homoerotic exploitation in a bizarre curio that, while predictable, you'll have to squirm through till the end. 

Glenda Jackson in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Glenda Jackson in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO with Brian Deacon

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO with Brian Deacon and Glenda Jackson

THE TRIPLE ECHO with Brian Deacon

Michael Apted's THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Gavin Richards and Jenny Lee Wright in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Brian Deacon and Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO

Oliver Reed in THE TRIPLE ECHO with Anthony May