Term of Trial is a 1962 British drama film written and directed by Peter Glenville and starring Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffith, Roland Culver, Dudley Foster and Thora Hird.

[2] Graham Weir is a schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during World War II has prevented him from progressing in his teaching career.

[3] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite Olivier and Signoret's acting, Oswald Morris's usual fine photography, a strong basic story, and smooth direction, this tragedy of good intentions and false accusations falls far short of harrowing or discomfiting. ...

Olivier underplays his way into the part of Weir much more naturally and convincingly than in his lauded stage role as the similarly ineffectual anti-hero of Ionesco's Rhinoceros. ...

The twistedly happy ending for Weir, however, suggests the unattractive moral that only by joining in the rat-race of deception and aping the unscrupulous methods of a commercial culture that exploits the prurient British attitude to sex, can the little man like him survive.