"Director: Charlie Clay"

• Lads Army | DVD | (04/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It's National Service 1950s Style. Can they Survive the Spam Semolina and Screaming Sergeant Majors? Thirty 18-24 year old men are thrown together and put through a regimen which half way through the last century was reputed to turn boys into men: National Service. In a disused army barracks they'll be given a taste of army life 50s style. An abuse-screaming sergeant major will lick them into shape. Humiliating punishments will include cleaning the toilets with a toothbrush and cutting the lawn with nail scissors. They'll be beaten down and dragged up only to be beaten down again - drilled and driven until they reach breaking point. The most unexpected will crack. The most unlikely will run. The most surprising will rise to the challenge. 30 volunteers face home-sickness barrack room tensions and a grueling regime. Divided from the outset into two competing squads those who survive will achieve the ultimate rewards of National Service: self-discipline self-reliance and the kind of self-knowledge that only comes with being a member of Lad's Army.