Carrington V.C. (film)

Carrington V.C., also known as Court Martial in the United States, is a 1954 British legal drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring David Niven, Margaret Leighton and Noelle Middleton.

Others in the cast include Allan Cuthbertson, Victor Maddern, Raymond Francis, Michael Bates, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen and Maurice Denham.

Defending himself at his court-martial, Carrington's case is that he had told his superior, Colonel Henniker, that he would take the money to advertise his complaint that he was owed for expenses.

He transferred £100 of it to his wife, Valerie, who was suicidal from financial worries, and left the base to compete in a horse race in which he bet the rest of the money on himself, hoping to be able to pay back the cash.

She was sitting in a chair fully dressed when Colonel Henniker stormed in, saying it was against regulations for males and females to be together in private quarters.

Gossiping about the case, a telephonist reveals that she overheard Carrington's phone call with his wife in which he said what he had told Henniker.