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The Virgin Soldiers (film)

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Director
  
John Dexter

Duration
  

Music director
  
Peter Greenwell

Country
  
United Kingdom

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama, War

Running time
  
1h 35m

Cinematography
  
Kenneth Higgins

Language
  
English

The Virgin Soldiers (film) movie poster

Release date
  
15 October 1969 (UK)5 February 1970 (US)

Based on
  
novel by Leslie Thomas

Writer
  
Leslie Thomas (novel), John Hopkins (screenplay), John McGrath (adaptation), Ian La Frenais (additional dialogue)

Cast
  
Hywel Bennett
,
Lynn Redgrave
,
Nigel Davenport
,
Jack Shepherd

Similar movies
  
Nigel Davenport appears in The Virgin Soldiers and Stand Up - Virgin Soldiers

Ballad of the virgin soldiers ost


The Virgin Soldiers is a 1969 film set in 1950, during the Malayan Emergency, and based on the novel by Leslie Thomas. The film led to a sequel, Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977).

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Plot

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Private Brigg is a National Serviceman sent to Singapore during the Malayan Emergency along with a squad of naive new recruits. There he falls for Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.

Cast

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  • Lynn Redgrave as Phillipa Raskin
  • Hywel Bennett as Pte Brigg
  • Nigel Davenport as Sgt Driscoll
  • Nigel Patrick as R.S.M. Raskin
  • Rachel Kempson as Mrs. Raskin
  • Jack Shepherd as Sgt Wellbeloved
  • Michael Gwynn as Col Bromley-Pickering
  • Tsai Chin as Juicy Lucy
  • Christopher Timothy as Cpl Brook
  • Don Hawkins as Tasker
  • Geoffrey Hughes as Lantry
  • Roy Holder as Fenwick
  • Riggs O'Hara as Sinclair
  • Gregory Phillips as Foster
  • Peter Kelly as Sandy Jacobs
  • Mark Nicholl as Cutler
  • Alan Shatsman as Longley
  • Jonty Miller as Forsyth
  • Jolyon Jackley as Cpl Gravy Browning
  • Robert Bridges as Sgt Fred Organ
  • James Cosmo as Waller
  • Graham Crowden as Medical Officer
  • Dudley Jones as Doctor
  • Matthew Guinness as Major Cusper
  • Naranjan Singh as Sikh
  • F Yew as 'Hallelujah'
  • Brenda Bruce as Nursing Sister (uncredited)
  • Warren Clarke as Soldier (uncredited)
  • Barbara Keogh as WRAC (uncredited)
  • James Marcus as Soldier (uncredited)
  • Jeremy Roughton as Soldier (uncredited)

    • The Virgin Soldiers (film) Rent The Virgin Soldiers 1969 film CinemaParadisocouk

    A young and uncredited David Bowie appears briefly as a soldier escorted out from behind a bar.

    Reception

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    The film was the 17th most popular movie at the UK box office in 1969.



    References

    The Virgin Soldiers (film) Wikipedia
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    The Virgin Soldiers (film) IMDb The Virgin Soldiers (film) themoviedb.org