Private's Progress
1956 · 97 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 469 VOTES · DIR. John Boulting
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,603 lines
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00:00:32 1942 and Britain is at war.
00:05:55 I shan't.
00:09:46 Mind, Irving.
00:12:57 Right! Attention!
00:17:30 Turn it up, will you? What's your name?
00:21:16 Well?
00:25:25 -Yes, sir. -For your school?
00:28:21 I remember my brigadier used to say to me, "Hitchcock," he said,
00:31:32 I think they're doing a spot of gardening for the CO's missus.
00:34:54 That's another thing, me old stan. Never give an officer your real name.
00:38:51 Ah, well, now, see, you never go all the way up to London.
00:43:07 Shut up, Stan, or you'll get us all run in!
00:46:35 Er, Lance Corporal Parsons, please.
00:49:46 Oh, please sit down, gentlemen.
00:54:07 Am I the company commander or are you?
00:58:27 No.
01:02:32 Bye-bye, sir.
01:06:25 90 miles inside enemy country,
01:12:24 Hello, what's this?
01:18:30 -Yes, sir, yes. -All right, off you go.
01:24:10 All right, we've no time for that now!
01:27:26 -Who's going to talk to him first? -I think you should, Padre.
01:31:38 You remember Prue, that War Office bird?
01:34:38 Certainly!
Cast & Characters
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)
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,603
Dialogue density16.5 lines / min
First line00:00:32
Final line01:34:38
Production Record
DirectorJohn Boulting
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes469
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