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A Private's Progress

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A Private's Progress
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NR,1hr 39min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
July 23, 1956
Director:
John Boulting
Distributor:
Distributors Corporation of America Inc.
Starring:
Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas  ...more
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Beloved by the British in the '50s, A Private's Progress is the kind of film that is always much better appreciated in its own home country; the references, atmosphere, and tone are so distinctly of their place (and time) that the film cannot be fully comprehended by one who wasn't "there." That said, Progress is still immensely engaging and enjoyable, kind of the cinematic equivalent of a friendly, ... Full Review
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Richard Attenborough
Pvt. Cox
Dennis Price
Brigadier Bertram Tracepurcel
Terry-Thomas
Maj. Hitchcock
Ian Carmichael
Stanley Windrush
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