Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Private Mick Hopper

Louise Germaine

Sylvia Berry

Douglas Henshall

Corporal Berry

Peter Jeffrey

Colonel Bernwood

Roy Hudd

Harold Atterbow

Clive Francis

Major Hedges

Nicholas Jones

Major Carter

Nicholas Farrell

Major Church

Maggie Steed

Aunt Vickie

Bernard Hill

Uncle Fred