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.

• Highroad Productions
• Columbia Pictures
• Hywel Bennett
• Lynn Redgrave
• Nigel Davenport
• Jack Shepherd
• Nigel Patrick
• Rachel Kempson
• Michael Gwynn
• Tsai Chin