Private's Progress
Comedy
War
The film that is respectfully dedicated to all those who got away with it !
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.
1956-02-17
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Cast
Director
John Boulting
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
David King-Wood as Gerald
Derrick De Marney as Pat
Brian Oulton as M.O. at Gravestone Camp
Michael Trubshawe as Col. Fanshawe
Thorley Walters as Captain Bootle
Henry Oscar as Art Expert
Theodore Zichy as German Agent