Boy Soldier (1987)
Milwr Bychan
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."
- Date of release
- 1987-01-30
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Karl Francis
Casting
- Richard Lynch — Wil Thomas
- Emer Gillespie — Deirdre
- Bernard Hill — Officer
- Dafydd Hywel — Sergeant Crane
- Simon Coady — Quinnell
- Dylan Davies — Joe
- James Donnelly — Truscott-Jones
- Russell Gomer — Wright
- Terry Jackson — Sergeant
- Bernard Latham — Roberts
- Timothy Lyn — Gary
- Stephen Lyons — Hotel Manager
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