Private's Progress

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Private's Progress (1956)

NR 07/23/1956 (US) Comedy, War 1h 37m

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The film that is respectfully dedicated to all those who got away with it !

Overview

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.

John Boulting

Director, Screenplay
Alan Hackney

Novel
Frank Harvey

Screenplay

Top Billed 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
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on November 23, 2018

What a shower you really are.

Upper class toff Stanley Windrush gets called to join the Army half way thru his university eduction, keen he may be, but he really is a fish out of water.

Brought to us from the greatly talented Boulting brothers, is this most adored of British comedies. It's fish out of water plot has been {and will forever be} done to death, but driving this one on is the sly digs at the British class system so evident in the Armed forces from yore. Windrush can't cut it as the officer his standing suggests he should be, so he is promptly sent down amongst the working clas... read the rest.

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