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The Long and the Short and the Tall (1960)

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Film details

Featuring

Laurence Harvey Richard Harris Richard Todd
Director

Leslie Norman
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1960
Genre

War
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

Jungle Fighters Alternative

Synopsis

Tragi-comedy about the personal reactions of a group of British Servicemen fighting and losing a battle against the Japanese in the jungle.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Private Bamforth
    
    Laurence Harvey
  - Corporal Johnstone
    
    Richard Harris
  - Sergeant Mitchem
    
    Richard Todd
  - Lance-Corporal Macleish
    
    Ronald Fraser
  - Private Whitaker
    
    David McCallum
  - Private Smith
    
    John Meillon
  - Private Evans
    
    John Rees
  - Tojo
    
    Kenji Takaki
Credits
- Direction:
  - Leslie Norman
  Production:
  Writing:
  - Wolf Mankowitz
  - Frederic Gotfurt
  - T.J Morrison
  - Original play
    
    Willis Hall
  Photography:
  - Erwin Hillier
  Special Effects:
  - George Blackwell
  Editing:
  - Gordon Stone
  Design:
  - Terence Verity
  - Jim Morahan
  Music:
  - Stanley Black
  Sound:
  - H.L. Bird
  - Len Shilton
  - sd
    
    Charles Crafford

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