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