Two Men Went to War – 2002 | 109 mins | Comedy, War | Colour

Plot Synopsis

A comic wartime thriller based on bizarre true events. John Henderson’s whimsical tale Two Men Went To War tells their outrageously irresponsible, yet eccentrically heroic story for the first time. With an all star cast in a sumptuous, funny and moving dramatisation of derring-do feels like an extended television drama at times, but still contains bags of charm.

Army dentists Sergeant Peter King (Kenneth Cranham) and Private Leslie Cuthbertson (Leo Bill) decide to go AWOL and mount an unofficial two-man invasion of occupied France in 1942. They stole a bag of hand grenades, two revolvers and a set of the best dental equipment that money could buy and went off to France in a stolen fishing boat. The bumbling duo succeeds in blowing up a radar station, much to the bemusement of Churchill’s intelligence chief (Derek Jacobi).