A Private's Progress
Summary:
The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's Progress. Though billed fourth, Ian Carmichael plays the central character, feckless British soldier Stanley Windrush. Interrupting his college education to serve his country, Windrush flunks out of officer's candidate school and is demoted to private. Mu... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Richard Attenborough - (Pvt. Cox)
Dennis Price - (Brigadier Bertram Tracepurcel)
Terry-Thomas - (Maj. Hitchcock)
Ian Carmichael - (Stanley Windrush)
Peter Jones - (Egan)
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Review:
Beloved by the British in the '50s, A Private's Progress is the kind of film that is always much better appreciated in its own home country; the references, atmosphere, and tone are so distinctly of their place (and time) that the film cannot be fully comprehended by one who wasn't "there." That said, Progress is still immensely engaging and ... Continue >>
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