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