Privates on Parade | |
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Directed by | Michael Blakemore |
Written by | Peter Nichols (play) |
Starring | John Cleese David Bamber Denis Quilley Bruce Payne |
Music by | Denis King |
Cinematography | Ian Wilson |
Editing by | Jim Clark |
Distributed by | HandMade Films (UK) Orion Classics (USA) |
Release date(s) | 1982 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Privates on Parade is a 1982 film adaptation of the Peter Nichols play of the same title about a fictional - and mostly gay - military entertainment group, the "Song and Dance Unit, Southeast Asia" assembled to entertain the troops in the Malayan jungle in the years after World War II.[1]