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Interesting British film about unwilling conscript soldiers posted to Singapore in 1950. Their virginity was sexual inexperience (and lack of opportunity) and military ineptitude (and terror). Many well loved British actors appear, the main female interest being Lynn Redgrave, as the desirable daughter of the RSM.
Among many comic moments in the film, one of the soldiers, Private Briggs (Hywel Bennet) has developed a love affair with a Singapore girl; he pays her an illicit call when he should be on duty, and during a teasing moment she throws his trousers from a high window. A passing Sikh cyclist takes them away. But the soldier has to get back to camp. The only way is to borrow a pair of the girl's satin trousers.
Much of the film evokes a particular atmosphere, but the direction is weak and many of the scenes miss the target.
HF June 2003
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