Boy Soldier (1987)
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."
- Released
- 1987-01-30
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Karl Francis
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Richard Lynch as Wil Thomas
- Emer Gillespie as Deirdre
- Bernard Hill as Officer
- Dafydd Hywel as Sergeant Crane
- Simon Coady as Quinnell
- Dylan Davies as Joe
- James Donnelly as Truscott-Jones
- Russell Gomer as Wright
- Terry Jackson as Sergeant
- Bernard Latham as Roberts
- Timothy Lyn as Gary
- Stephen Lyons as Hotel Manager