Chips with Everything (1975)

8.0/10 120 min

Overview

A group of Air Force conscripts begin eight weeks of 'square-bashing' - basic military drill. Two of the conscripts develop a friendship, Pip Thompson, a young aristocrat, and Chas Wingate, a working class boy. The military hierarchy want Pip to become an officer. He rebelliously refuses. The officers patiently tolerate his rebellion thus defusing it and breaking his spirit.

Cast

Thorley Walters

Wing Commander

Donald Hewlett

Squadron Leader

David Daker

Corporal Hill

James Faulkner

Pilot Officer

Tim Woodward

Pip Thompson

David Troughton

Smiler Washington

Karl Johnson

Wilfe Seaford

Leslie Schofield

1st Corporal

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