Private's Progress

Private's Progress

97 mins | Comedy, War | Feb. 17, 1956

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.

Private's Progress

97 mins | Comedy, War | Feb. 17, 1956

Private's Progress
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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Charter Film Productions, Boulting Brothers, British Lion Film Corporation
Original title Private's Progress
Directors Philip Shipway, Olga Brook, John Boulting
Writers Alan Hackney, John Boulting, Frank Harvey

Cast

Ian Carmichael

as Pte. Stanley Windrush

Richard Attenborough

as Pvt. Percival Henry Cox

Terry-Thomas

as Major Hitchcock

John Le Mesurier

as Psychiatrist

William Hartnell

as Sgt. Sutton

Dennis Price

as Brig. Bertram Tracepurcel

Ian Bannen

as Private Horrocks

Peter Jones

as Arthur Egan

Christopher Lee

as Major Schultz

Miles Malleson

as Mr. Windrush Sr.

Jill Adams

as Prudence Greenslade

Victor Maddern

as Private George Blake

Kenneth Griffith

as Private Dai Jones

George Coulouris

as Padre

Marianne Stone

as Miss Sugden

Ronald Adam

as Doctor at Medical

Henry B. Longhurst

as Mr. Spottiswood

Sally Miles

as Catherine

David King-Wood

as Gerald

Brian Oulton

as M.O. at Gravestone Camp

Michael Trubshawe

as Col. Fanshawe

Thorley Walters

as Captain Bootle

John Warren

as SgtMaj. Gradwick

Robert Raglan

as General Tomlinson

Henry Oscar

as Art Expert

Nicholas Bruce

as German Officer

Theodore Zichy

as German Agent