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
Roger Lloyd Pack
Bandmaster
James Cosmo
Waller
Roy Holder
Fenwick
David Bowie
Soldier
Tsai Chin
Juicy Lucy
Graham Crowden
MO
Lynn Redgrave
Phillipa Raskin
Warren Clarke
Soldier
Brenda Bruce
Nursing Sister
Michael Gwynn
Lt Col Bromley-Pickering
Jack Shepherd
Sgt Wellbeloved
Christopher Timothy
Cpl Brook
Geoffrey Hughes
Lantry
Hywel Bennett
Brigg
Nigel Davenport
Sgt Driscoll
Rachel Kempson
Mrs Raskin
Barbara Keogh
WRAC
Jill Goldston
Youn Female Officer (uncredited)
James Marcus
Soldier
Nigel Patrick
RSM Raskin
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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