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Private's Progress (1956) [NR]

Release Date:
February 17, 1956

Original Title:
Private's Progress

Alternate Titles:
Privates Progress

Genres:
Comedy | War

Production Companies:
Boulting Brothers
British Lion Film Corporation
Charter Film Productions

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 97

The film that is respectfully dedicated to all those who got away with it !

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Allan Harris

Assistant Director:
Philip Shipway

Associate Producer:
Ernest Holding

Camera Operator:
Cecil Cooney

Continuity:
Olga Brook

Director:
John Boulting

Director of Photography:
Eric Cross

Editor:
Anthony Harvey

Hairdresser:
Joan Smallwood

Makeup Artist:
Neville Smallwood

Music Director:
John Addison

Novel:
Alan Hackney

Original Music Composer:
John Addison

Producer:
Roy Boulting

Production Manager:
Harold Buck

Screenplay:
Frank Harvey
John Boulting

Sound Editor:
Chris Greenham

Sound Recordist:
Peter Handford

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