
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British Empire. To their eyes, it can hardly compete with girls, rock music, and the intrigue of romantic entanglements.

as Private Francis Francis

as Private Mick Hopper

as Sylvia Berry

as Corporal Berry

as Colonel Bernwood

as Harold Atterbow

as Major Hedges

as Major Carter

as Major Church

as Aunt Vickie

as Uncle Fred

as Prime Minister Eden