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Private's Progress (1956)
Directed by John Boulting
“The film that is respectfully dedicated to all those who got away with it !”
Comedy, War · 1h 37m
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Cast
Ian Carmichael
Pte. Stanley Windrush
Richard Attenborough
Pvt. Percival Henry Cox
Terry-Thomas
Major Hitchcock
John Le Mesurier
Psychiatrist
William Hartnell
Sgt. Sutton
Dennis Price
Brig. Bertram Tracepurcel
Ian Bannen
Private Horrocks
Peter Jones
Arthur Egan
Christopher Lee
Major Schultz
Miles Malleson
Mr. Windrush Sr.
Jill Adams
Prudence Greenslade
Victor Maddern
Private George Blake
Crew
- Director
- John Boulting
- Screenplay
- Frank Harvey, John Boulting
- Novel
- Alan Hackney
- Director of Photography
- Eric Cross
- Original Music Composer
- John Addison
- Editor
- Anthony Harvey
- Producer
- Roy Boulting
Details
- Release date
- 1956-02-17
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Comedy, War
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Russian, German, Japanese, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Charter Film Productions, British Lion Film Corporation, Boulting Brothers