War Comedy Drama
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Directed by
John Dexter
Written by
Ian La Frenais, John McGrath, John Hopkins
Graham Crowden
MO
Roger Lloyd Pack
Bandmaster
James Cosmo
Waller
David Bowie
Soldier
Lynn Redgrave
Phillipa Raskin
Tsai Chin
Juicy Lucy
Jill Goldston
Youn Female Officer (uncredited)
Nigel Davenport
Sgt Driscoll
Nigel Patrick
RSM Raskin
Warren Clarke
Soldier
Jack Shepherd
Sgt Wellbeloved
Christopher Timothy
Cpl Brook
Hywel Bennett
Brigg
Geoffrey Hughes
Lantry
Michael Gwynn
Lt Col Bromley-Pickering
Rachel Kempson
Mrs Raskin
Brenda Bruce
Nursing Sister
James Marcus
Soldier
Barbara Keogh
WRAC
Roy Holder
Fenwick
Wayne Sleep
Villiers
Don Hawkins
Tasker
Gregory Phillips
Foster
Riggs O'Hara
Sinclair
Peter Kelly
Sandy Jacobs
Mark Nicholl
Cutler
Alan Shatsman
Longley
Jonty Miller
Forsyth
Matthew Guinness
Maj Cusper
Robert Bridges
Sergeant Fred Organ
Jolyon Jackley
Lance Cpl. 'Gravy' Browning
Dudley Jones
Doctor
Jeremy Roughton
Soldier
Naranjan Singh
Sikh
Hallelujah
F Yew

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