Sooner or later, they're going to get it
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.
Hywel BennettBrigg
Lynn RedgravePhillipa Raskin
Nigel DavenportSgt Driscoll
Jack ShepherdSgt Wellbeloved
Nigel PatrickRSM Raskin
Rachel KempsonMrs Raskin
Michael GwynnLt Col Bromley-Pickering
Tsai ChinJuicy Lucy
Christopher TimothyCpl BrookDon HawkinsTasker
Geoffrey HughesLantry
Roy HolderFenwick
Wayne SleepVilliersGregory PhillipsFosterRiggs O'HaraSinclair
