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	* [https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9507EFD81E3FE034BC4E53DFB466838B669EDE ''The Virgin Soldiers'' film review] at [[New York Times]]		* [https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9507EFD81E3FE034BC4E53DFB466838B669EDE ''The Virgin Soldiers'' film review] at [[New York Times]]
	* [https://variety.com/1968/film/reviews/the-virgin-soldiers-1200421771/# ''The Virgin Soldiers'' film review] at ''Variety''		* [https://variety.com/1968/film/reviews/the-virgin-soldiers-1200421771/# ''The Virgin Soldiers'' film review] at ''Variety''

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{{Infobox film
| name = The Virgin Soldiers
| image_size =
| image = "The_Virgin_Soldiers"_(1969).jpg
| caption = British quad poster by [[John Stockle]]
| director = [[John Dexter]]
| producer = [[Leslie Gilliat]] [[Ned Sherrin]]
| writer = [[John Hopkins (screenwriter)|John Hopkins]] [[John McGrath (playwright)|John McGrath]] [[Ian La Frenais]]
| based_on = ''[[The Virgin Soldiers]]'' by [[Leslie Thomas]]
| starring = [[Lynn Redgrave]] [[Hywel Bennett]] [[Nigel Davenport]] [[Nigel Patrick]] [[Rachel Kempson]]
| music = [[Peter Greenwell]]
| cinematography = [[Kenneth Higgins]]
| editing = [[Thelma Connell]]
| studio = High Road Productions Open Road Films
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1969|10|15|df=y|London|1970|02|05|New York City}}
| runtime = 95 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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'''''The Virgin Soldiers''''' is a 1969 British [[war film|war]] [[comedy-drama]] film directed by [[John Dexter]] and starring [[Lynn Redgrave]], [[Hywel Bennett]], [[Nigel Davenport]], [[Nigel Patrick]] and [[Rachel Kempson]]. It is set in 1950, during the [[Malayan Emergency]], and is based on the 1966 [[The Virgin Soldiers|novel of the same name]] by [[Leslie Thomas]].

The film's popularity spawned a 1977 [[sequel]], ''[[Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers]]''<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10814267/Leslie-Thomas-obituary.html "Leslie Thomas - obituary", ''Telegraph'', 7 May 2014] accessed 7 May 2014</ref> with Nigel Davenport repeating his role as Sgt Driscoll.

==Premise==
Private Brigg is a soldier sent to Singapore during the [[Malayan Emergency]] along with a squad of naïve new recruits. There he falls for Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the regimental sergeant major.

==Cast==
* [[Lynn Redgrave]] as Phillipa Raskin
* [[Hywel Bennett]] as Pte Brigg
* [[Nigel Davenport]] as Sgt Driscoll
* [[Nigel Patrick]] as R.S.M. Raskin
* [[Rachel Kempson]] as Mrs. Raskin
* [[Jack Shepherd (actor)|Jack Shepherd]] as Sgt Wellbeloved
* [[Michael Gwynn]] as Col Bromley-Pickering
* [[Tsai Chin (actress)|Tsai Chin]] as Juicy Lucy
* [[Christopher Timothy]] as Cpl Brook
* Don Hawkins as Tasker
* [[Geoffrey Hughes (actor)|Geoffrey Hughes]] as Lantry
* [[Roy Holder]] as Fenwick
* [[Riggs O'Hara]] as Sinclair
* [[Gregory Phillips]] as Foster
* [[Peter Kelly (actor)|Peter Kelly]] as Sandy Jacobs
* [[Mark Nicholl]] as Cutler
* [[Alan Shatsman]] as Longley
* [[Jonty Miller]] as Forsyth
* [[Jolyon Jackley]] as Cpl Gravy Browning
* Robert Bridges as Sgt Fred Organ
* [[James Cosmo]] as Waller
* [[Graham Crowden]] as Medical Officer
* [[Dudley Jones]] as Doctor
* [[Matthew Guinness]] as Major Cusper
* [[Naranjan Singh]] as Sikh
* [[F Yew]] as 'Hallelujah'
* [[Brenda Bruce]] as Nursing Sister (uncredited)
* [[Warren Clarke]] as Soldier (uncredited)
* [[Barbara Keogh]] as WRAC (uncredited)
* [[James Marcus (English actor)|James Marcus]] as Soldier (uncredited)
* [[Jeremy Roughton]] as Soldier (uncredited)

A young and uncredited [[David Bowie]] appears briefly as a soldier escorted out from behind a bar.

==Reception==
''The Virgin Soldiers'' was the 17th-most-popular film at the U.K. box office in 1969.<ref>"The World's Top Twenty Films." Sunday Times [London, England] 27 Sept. 1970: 27. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. accessed 5 Apr. 2014</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0065182}}
* [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/94853/The-Virgin-Soldiers/ ''The Virgin Soldiers''] at [[TCMDB]]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9507EFD81E3FE034BC4E53DFB466838B669EDE ''The Virgin Soldiers'' film review] at [[New York Times]]
* [https://variety.com/1968/film/reviews/the-virgin-soldiers-1200421771/# ''The Virgin Soldiers'' film review] at ''Variety''

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