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 Bennett
Lynn Redgrave
Nigel Davenport
Jack Shepherd
Nigel Patrick
Rachel Kempson
Michael Gwynn
Tsai Chin
Christopher Timothy
Don Hawkins
Geoffrey Hughes
Roy Holder
Wayne Sleep
Gregory Phillips
Riggs O'Hara
Peter Kelly
Mark Nicholl
Alan Shatsman
Jonty Miller
James Cosmo
Matthew Guinness
Robert Bridges
Jolyon Jackley
Graham Crowden
Dudley Jones
Brenda Bruce
Roger Lloyd Pack
Barbara Keogh
David Bowie
Warren Clarke
James Marcus
Jeremy Roughton
Naranjan Singh
Hallelujah
Jill Goldston