
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.

as Brigg

as Phillipa Raskin

as Sgt Driscoll

as Sgt Wellbeloved

as RSM Raskin

as Mrs Raskin

as Lt Col Bromley-Pickering

as Juicy Lucy

as Cpl Brook

as Tasker

as Lantry

as Fenwick

as Villiers

as Foster

as Sinclair

as Sandy Jacobs

as Cutler

as Longley

as Forsyth

as Waller

as Maj Cusper

as Sergeant Fred Organ

as Lance Cpl. 'Gravy' Browning

as MO

as Doctor

as Nursing Sister

as Bandmaster

as WRAC

as Soldier

as Soldier

as Soldier

as Soldier

as Sikh

as F Yew

as Youn Female Officer (uncredited)