Private's Progress (1956)
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The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's Progress. Though billed fourth, Ian Carmichael plays the central character, feckless British soldier Stanley Windrush. Interrupting his college education to serve his… More The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's Progress. Though billed fourth, Ian Carmichael plays the central character, feckless British soldier Stanley Windrush. Interrupting his college education to serve his country, Windrush flunks out of officer's candidate school and is demoted to private. Much of the humor arises from the bookish hero's confrontation with the ruder and cruder side of army life, as represented by rough-hewn fellow private Cox (Richard Attenborough). As Major Hitchcock, Terry-Thomas offers a brilliant parody of the "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" school of military service, while Dennis Price is equally amusing as a nonplussed commanding officer named Tracepurcel (!) Also worth watching is future "Dr. Who" star William Hartnell as a loudmouthed sergeant. Halfway through the film, the plot rears its ugly head as the protagonists become involved with the covert reclamation of art treasures confiscated by the Nazis during WW2. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Boulting
- Written By
- Frank Harvey, John Boulting
- Genres
- Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 23, 1956 Wide
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Cast
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Richard Attenborough
as Pvt. Cox
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Dennis Price
as Brigadier Bertram Tracepurcel
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Terry-Thomas
as Maj. Hitchcock
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Ian Carmichael
as Stanley Windrush
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Peter Jones
as Egan
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William Hartnell
as Sgt. Sutton
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Thorley Walters
as Capt. Bootle
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Jill Adams
as Prudence Greenslade
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Ian Bannen
as Pvt. Horrocks
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Victor Maddern
as Pvt. George Blake
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Kenneth Griffith
as Pvt. Dai Jones
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John Warren
as Sgt.-Maj. Gradwick
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George Coulouris
as Padre
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Derrick De Marney
as Pat
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David King-Wood
as Gerald
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Miles Malleson
as Mr. Windrush
- Ronald Adam
- Nicholas Bruce
- Robert Bruce
- Basil Dignam
- Eynon Evans
- Glyn Houston
- Lloyd Lamble
- Ludwig Lawinski
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John Le Mesurier
as Psychiatrist
- Christopher Lee
- David Lodge
- Jack McNaughton
- Henry Oscar
- Brian Oulton
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Marianne Stone
as Miss Sugden
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Michael Trubshawe
as Col. Panshawe
- Michael Ward
- Lockwood West
- Frank Hawkins
- Theodore Zichy
- Henry Longhurst
