Private's Progress

6.6
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Run time: 97 min
  • Premiere: 1956. February 17.

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.

Discover

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

Miles Malleson

Mr. Windrush Sr.

Jill Adams

Prudence Greenslade

Victor Maddern

Private George Blake

Kenneth Griffith

Private Dai Jones

George Coulouris

Padre

Marianne Stone

Miss Sugden

Ronald Adam

Doctor at Medical

Henry B. Longhurst

Mr. Spottiswood

Sally Miles

Catherine

David King-Wood

Gerald

Derrick De Marney

Pat

Brian Oulton

M.O. at Gravestone Camp

Michael Trubshawe

Col. Fanshawe

Thorley Walters

Captain Bootle

John Warren

SgtMaj. Gradwick

Robert Raglan

General Tomlinson

Henry Oscar

Art Expert

Nicholas Bruce

German Officer

Theodore Zichy

German Agent

Patrick Westwood

Pvt. Green - Driver

Jack Carter

German Officer (uncredited)

Art

Allan Harris

Art Direction

Camera

Eric Cross

Director of Photography

Cecil Cooney

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Joan Smallwood

Hairdresser

Neville Smallwood

Makeup Artist

Directing

John Boulting

Director

Olga Brook

Continuity

Philip Shipway

Assistant Director

Editing

Anthony Harvey

Editor

Production

Roy Boulting

Producer

Ernest Holding

Associate Producer

Harold Buck

Production Manager

Sound

John Addison

Original Music Composer

Peter Handford

Sound Recordist

Chris Greenham

Sound Editor

John Addison

Music Director

Writing

Frank Harvey

Screenplay

Alan Hackney

Novel

John Boulting

Screenplay

Art

Allan Harris

Art Direction

Camera

Eric Cross

Director of Photography

Cecil Cooney

Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

Joan Smallwood

Hairdresser

Neville Smallwood

Makeup Artist

Directing

John Boulting

Director

Olga Brook

Continuity

Philip Shipway

Assistant Director

Editing

Anthony Harvey

Editor

Production

Roy Boulting

Producer

Ernest Holding

Associate Producer

Harold Buck

Production Manager

Sound

John Addison

Original Music Composer

Peter Handford

Sound Recordist

Chris Greenham

Sound Editor

John Addison

Music Director

Writing

Frank Harvey

Screenplay

Alan Hackney

Novel

John Boulting

Screenplay