The Virgin Soldiers
- 1969 film
Comic war movie following the exploits of a bunch of National Service conscripts serving in Singapore in the 1950s. Stars Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Rachel Kempson, Tsai Chin and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1969
- Creator
- Leslie Thomas
- Stars
- Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Rachel Kempson, Tsai Chin, Christopher Timothy, Jack Shepherd, Michael Gwynn and more
- Writers
- John Hopkins, John McGrath and Ian La Frenais
- Director
- John Dexter
- Producers
- Leslie Gilliat, Ned Sherrin and Carl Foreman
- Companies
Comedy-drama about a group of conscripted soldiers serving in Singapore in the 1950s. Young and inexperienced, the men have yet to prove themselves in bed and battle - and seem to be failing miserably at both.
Foremost amongst the bunch is Private Brigg, who first encounters prostitute Juicy Lucy, then Sergeant Major's daughter Phillipa Raskin, and finally the enemy, in the form of armed guerillas who lay seige to the barracks.
Additional details
- UK certificate
- X
- Duration
- 99 minutes
- UK release
- October 1969
- Produced
- October - December 1967
- UK premiere
- Wednesday 15th October 1969
- Distributors
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
Website links
Recording details
- England, Malaya, Singapore and Reading - Locations
- Shepperton Studios - Studios
- Bury St Edmunds - Train ambush scenes