Virgin Soldiers, The fistfights Carol cannot reciprocate

Carol cannot reciprocate

As Chloe confides her wishes to Bearry

John Hodiak and Lloyd Nolan

Will she choose the dashing Spanish-American war hero backing her show (Louis Calhern) or the brash tunesmith (Donald Woods) who's all work and no romance

for whom The Gentleman has long been a nuisance

Virgin Soldiers, The fistfights Carol cannot reciprocateIn Singapore in 1950, a crop of young British soldiers are trained in the arts of love and war in this darkly comic examination of the perils, tedium and confusion that dominate the day to day life in the ranks. Phillipa (Lynn Redgrave, Georgy Girl, The National Health), the daughter of British Sergeant Major Raskin, is the singular object for the sexual speculations of the raw recruits known as the "virgin soldiers." Although Phillipa responds to