Private's Progress (Original title)
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 11 March 1956 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: John Boulting
Synopsis: Comedy of an innocent lad who falls in with a gang of "spivs" in the Army.
Genres: Comedy, War
Subjects: British Army, World War II
Releases
Date: 1956Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 102 mins Length: 9184 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 11 March 1956 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: John Boulting
Synopsis: Comedy of an innocent lad who falls in with a gang of "spivs" in the Army.
Genres: Comedy, War
Subjects: British Army, World War II
Releases
Date: 1956Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 102 mins Length: 9184 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(28)
©: Charter Film Productions, Production Company: Charter Film Productions, Produced in association with: British Lion Films, Produced by: Roy Boulting, Associate Producer: Ernest Holding, Production Manager: Harold Buck, Assistant Director: Philip Shipway, 2nd Assistant Director: Joe Marks, Continuity: Olga Brook, Screenplay by: Frank Harvey, [Screenplay in association] with: John Boulting, Based on the story by: Alan Hackney, Director of Photography: Eric Cross, Camera Operator: R.C. Cooney, [Clapper Loader]: Marc Hyams, Animated Drawings: Halas & Batchelor, Editor: Anthony Harvey, Art Director: Alan Harris, Wardrobe: Bermans, Make-up: Neville Smallwood, Hairdressing: Joan Smallwood, Music Composed and Directed by: John Addison, [Music] Played by: The Sinfonia of London, Sound Recordist: Peter Handford, Sound System: Western Electric, Sound Editor: Chris Greenham, Studio: Shepperton Studios
Cast
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E.V.H. Emmett ([Narrator]), Richard Attenborough (Private Percival Henry Cox), Dennis Price (Brigadier Bertram Tracepurcel), Terry-Thomas (Major Hitchcock), Ian Carmichael (Stanley Windrush), Peter Jones (Arthur Egan), William Hartnell (Sergeant Sutton), Thorley Walters (Captain Henry Bootle), Jill Adams (Prudence Greenslade), Ian Bannen (Private Horrocks), Victor Maddern (Private George Blake), Kenneth Griffiths (Private Dai Jones), John Warren (Sergeant-Major Gradwick), George Coulouris (padre), Derrick de Marney (Pat), Ronald Adam (doctor at medical), Henry Longhurst (Mr Spottiswood), Miles Malleson (Mr Windrush Sr), Sally Miles (Catherine), David King-Wood (Gerald), Brian Oulton (M.D. at Gravestone Camp), Michael Trubshawe (Colonel Fanshawe), John Le Mesurier (psychiatrist), Robert Raglan (General Tomlinson), Nicholas Bruce (German officer), Theodore Zichy (German agent), Henry Oscar (1st art expert), Christopher Lee ([Major Schultz]), Basil Dignam ([Colonel Argent]), David Lodge ([Lance Corporal Parsons]), Lloyd Lamble ([medical officer]), Karel Stepanek ([German officer]), Michael Ward ([Sidney]), Glyn Houston ([sergeant]), Ian Wilson ([party guest]), Ludwig Lawinsky ([General Von Lembeck]), Patricia Somerset ([ATS clerk]), Marianne Stone ([Miss Sugden]), Frank Hawkins ([drill sergeant]), Robert Bruce ([testing officer]), Llewellyn Rees ([2nd art expert]), Irlin Hall ([NAAFI girl]), Lockwood West ([detective]), Jack McNaughton ([medical orderly]), Alex Macowen ([2nd medical orderly]), Eynon Evans ([ticket collector]), Peter Williams ([sergeant major at Redgate]), Trevor Reid ([adjutant]), Victor Wood ([CO at holding depot]), Peter Stephens ([Colonel Lench]), Mickey Wood ([judo instructor]), Roy Purcell ([colonel at checkpoint]), Edward Cast ([intelligence officer]), Julia Nelson ([ATS sergeant]), Robert Dean ([naval commander]), John Harvey ([wing commander]), Patrick Westwood ([Green, driver]), Tom Bowan ([NCO]), Gerald Fox ([Face Ache]), Wally Patch ([barman]), F. Kanero ([Japanese instructor]), Vincent Edwards ([German officer]), Frederick Jaeger ([German sentry])