"Who wrote the play, ""The Long and the Short and the Tall""?"
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The Long and the Short and the Tall (play) Norman, it stars Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris, Richard Todd and David McCallum. A TV drama followed in 1979 which starred Michael Kitchen, Mark McManus and Richard Morant. The play is set in British Malaya in 1942, during the Battle of Malaya. The characters are a patrol of British Army soldiers; the play's events take place in an abandoned hut in the middle of the Malayan jungle. Tension rises as the patrol's radio malfunctions and a Japanese soldier stumbles upon them. Albert Finney was originally cast as the North Country Pte Bamforth. Dut due to appendicitis he was replaced by the