Stand Up Virgin Soldiers

They fought their battles in the jungle - and in the bed! "Earthy and frequently funny". Sunday People This very enjoyable comedy-drama was the popular sequel to the hit 1969 movie The Virgin Soldiers and was well scripted by Leslie Thomas from his best-selling novel. The setting is Malaya in 1950 and the film follows the adventures-both sexual and military-of reluctant National Service conscripts Robin Askwith and George Layton. Depressed by the prospect of a further six months in the army, the two soldiers console themselves with the charms of prostitutes Juicy Lucy and Elephant Ethel. But later they lay amorous siege to two British nurses, a campaign of conquest that leads to many highly entertaining situations, including a spell in hospital for the Romeos when they pretend to have VD in order to meet the nurses again. But the terrors of the war against the Communist guerrillas are never far away. Askwith, said the Daily Mail, "Proves himself a far more sensitive actor than I'd imagined" and a top-notch support comes from Layton and a hand-picked cast that includes Edward Woodward, John Le Mesurier, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Stephenson, Irene Handl, and Warren Mitchell. © Warner Bros. Inc