Sooner or later, they're going to get it
6.5
95 min
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.
| Name | Character | Team | |
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Hywel Bennett | Brigg | Unowned |
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Lynn Redgrave | Phillipa Raskin | Unowned |
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Nigel Davenport | Sgt Driscoll | Unowned |
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Jack Shepherd | Sgt Wellbeloved | Unowned |
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Nigel Patrick | RSM Raskin | Unowned |
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Rachel Kempson | Mrs Raskin | Unowned |
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Michael Gwynn | Lt Col Bromley-Pickering | Unowned |
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Tsai Chin | Juicy Lucy | Unowned |
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Christopher Timothy | Cpl Brook | Unowned |
| Don Hawkins | Tasker | Unowned | |
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Geoffrey Hughes | Lantry | Unowned |
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Roy Holder | Fenwick | Unowned |
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Wayne Sleep | Villiers | Unowned |
| Gregory Phillips | Foster | Unowned | |
| Riggs O'Hara | Sinclair | Unowned | |
| Peter Kelly | Sandy Jacobs | Unowned | |
| Mark Nicholl | Cutler | Unowned | |
| Alan Shatsman | Longley | Unowned | |
| Jonty Miller | Forsyth | Unowned | |
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James Cosmo | Waller | Unowned |
| Matthew Guinness | Maj Cusper | Unowned | |
| Robert Bridges | Sergeant Fred Organ | Unowned | |
| Jolyon Jackley | Lance Cpl. 'Gravy' Browning | Unowned | |
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Graham Crowden | MO | Unowned |
| Dudley Jones | Doctor | Unowned | |
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Brenda Bruce | Nursing Sister | Unowned |
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Roger Lloyd Pack | Bandmaster | Unowned |
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Barbara Keogh | WRAC | Unowned |
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David Bowie | Soldier | Unowned |
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Warren Clarke | Soldier | Unowned |
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James Marcus | Soldier | Unowned |
| Jeremy Roughton | Soldier | Unowned | |
| Naranjan Singh | Sikh | Unowned | |
| Hallelujah | F Yew | Unowned | |
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Jill Goldston | Youn Female Officer (uncredited) | Unowned |