The Virgin Soldiers (Original title)
Dates: 1969 (Copyright), 02 November 1969 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: John Dexter
Synopsis: Deals with a group of misfit soldiers of a British garrison near Singapore during the guerilla uprisings of the early 1950s.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, War
Releases
Date: 02 November 1969Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Length: 8676 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1969 (Copyright), 02 November 1969 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: John Dexter
Synopsis: Deals with a group of misfit soldiers of a British garrison near Singapore during the guerilla uprisings of the early 1950s.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, War
Releases
Date: 02 November 1969Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 96 mins Length: 8676 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©: Columbia (British) Productions Ltd., Production Company: Open Road Films Ltd, Production Company: Highroad, Presents: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Presents: Carl Foreman, Executive Producer: Carl Foreman, Produced by: Leslie Gilliat, Produced by: Ned Sherrin, Production Manager: Eddie Pike, Production Manager: Derek Parr, Location Manager: Ray Corbett, Assistant Director: Claude Watson, Continuity: Kay Rawlings, Screenplay by: John Hopkins, Adapted by: John Mcgrath, Additional Dialogue by: Ian La Frenais, From the novel by: Leslie Thomas, Photographed by: Ken Higgins, Camera Operator: Alan Hall, Supervising Electrician: Roy Larner (Lee Electric (Lighting) Ltd.), Editor: Thelma Connell, Art Director: Frank White, Wardrobe: Jean Fairlie, Wardrobe: Charles Guerin, Make-up: Philip Leakey, Hairdresser: Gladys Leakey, Music Composed and Conducted by: Peter Greenwell, 'Virgin Soldiers March' Composed by: Raymond Douglas Davies, Sound Recordist: Brian Marshall, Sound Recordist: Nolan Roberts, Sound Editor: Roy Hyde, Sound System: RCA Sound Recording, Completed at: Shepperton Studios
Cast
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Lynn Redgrave (Phillipa Raskin), Hywel Bennett (Private Brigg), Nigel Davenport (Sergeant Driscoll), Rachel Kempson (Mrs Raskin), Jack Shepherd (Sergeant Wellbeloved), Chin Tsai (Juicy Lucy), Michael Gwynn (Lt-Col. Bromley-Pickering), Christopher Timothy (Cpl. Brook), Robert Bridges (Sergeant Fred Organ), James Cosmo (Waller), Don Hawkins (Tasker), Roy Holder (Fenwick), Geoffrey Hughes (Lantry), Jolyon Jackley (L.-Cpl. "Gravy" Browning), Peter Kelly (Sandy Jacobs), Mark Nicholl (Cutler), Gregory Phillips (Foster), Alan Shatsman (Longley), Wayne Sleep (Villiers), Nigel Patrick (R.S.M. Raskin), Riggs O'Hara (Sinclair), Jonty Miller (Forsyth), Graham Crowden (Medical Officer), Dudley Jones (Doctor), Matthew Guinness (Major Cusper), Narajan Singh (Sikh), F. Yew ("Hallelujah"), David Bowie (soldier in bar)