Sovereign's Company

Apr 21, 1970

1h 18m

★ 7.0

Overview

Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

BBC

Sovereign's Company Trailers

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Cast

General Cantfield

Roland Culver

Andrew Cantfield

Gareth Forwood

Senior Under Officer Patterson

James Cosmo

Junior Under Officer Sanders

Stephen Shepherd

Dexter

Clive Francis

Dawkins

James Hazeldine

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Oliver Cotton

Hurt

Larry Dann

Dankworth-Lowe

David Rowlands

General Decamps

John Wentworth

Colonel Frayne

Laurence Hardy

Major Hacker

Moray Watson

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