Richard Attenborough as Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale

Jack Hawkins as Colonel Deal

Flora Robson as Miss Barker-Wise

John Leyton as Private Wilkes

Mia Farrow as Karen Eriksson

Cecil Parker as Fletcher

Errol John as Boniface

Graham Stark as Dodger

Earl Cameron as Captain Abraham

Percy Herbert as Parkin

David Lodge as Muscles

Bernard Horsfall as Schoolie

John Meillon as Aussie

Horace James as

Patrick Holt as

Alan Browning as

Richard Bidlake as

Joe Layode as

Ric Hutton as

Thomas Baptiste as

John Ashley Hamilton as

Louis Mahoney as

Bloke Modisane as

Benny Nightingale as

Frank Singuineau as