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