Private's Progress
- 1956 film
Film starring Ian Carmichael as a young undergraduate who is conscripted into the British Army. Also features Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, Peter Jones, William Hartnell and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1956
- Stars
- Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones, William Hartnell, Thorley Walters, Jill Adams and more
- Writers
- Alan Hackney, Frank Harvey and John Boulting
- Director
- John Boulting
- Producer
- Roy Boulting
- Company
It's 1942 and in the middle of his studies, Stanley Windrush is called up to join the forces. Of a respectable family, he's naturally assumed to be Officer material, but quickly proves to be a particularly feckless new recruit and soon flunks out of the officer training course and is stationed as a regular Private at a quiet camp where he can be of no bother.
There, Windrush befriends a fellow Private, crafty layabout Cox. It's not long before the pair are drafted into a division under the command of Brigadier Tracepurcel, Stanley's uncle, who's planning a daring raid far behind enemy lines to liberate a hoard of precious works of art and treasures that've been confiscated by the Nazis.
Additional details
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 106 minutes
- Production setting
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white
- Soundtrack
- Music composed and directed by John Addison and played by the Sinfonia of London.
Website links
Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Monday 25th October 2021 at 3:00pm on TPTV
- Friday 9th July 2021 at 6:00am on TPTV
- Thursday 26th November 2020 at 2:30pm on TPTV
Recording details
- Shepperton Studios