It was Tom Courtenay (the troubled young man) night on TCM, and I'm currently watching Private Potter (1962). It's about a soldier in Cyprus who foils his comrades raid to capture a high-ranking EOKA member, by screaming out loud just before the raid starts. One soldier is killed, and the EOKA member escapes. Potter claims that he saw God, which made him yell. The film is about the debate among the officers on what to do with him. Is he a coward, a visionary or mad? Not too bad of a film, so far.
By the way, Potter's regiment is the 1st Rutland Yeomanry.
It got me recalling that Courtenay, as a soldier named Private Hamp, also saw God (or maybe it was Christ) in King and Country (1964) which featured Dirk Bogarde. I don't yet know how Private Potter ends, but in King and Country, Private Hamp is shot for desertion.
Oh, wait, Private Potter has just escaped custody and taken off for the mountains. Gotta go.
Cheers,
Dan.