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 |
Cinematography | Ian Wilson |
Edited by | Jim Clark |
Music by | Denis King |
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Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | under £2 million[1] |
Privates on Parade is a 1983 film adaptation of the Peter Nichols play of the same name about a fictional – and mostly gay – military entertainment group, the "Song and Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA)" assembled to entertain the troops in the Malayan jungle during the Malayan Emergency.[2]