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