Private's Progress

Ian Carmichael - Stanley Windrush
Richard Attenborough - Pvt. Cox
Dennis Price - Brigadier Bertram Tracepurcel
Terry-Thomas - Maj. Hitchcock
William Hartnell - Sgt. Sutton
Peter Jones - Egan
Ian Bannen - Pvt. Horrocks
Thorley Walters - Capt. Bootle
Jill Adams - rudence Greenslade
Victor Maddern - Pvt. George Blake
Kenneth Griffith - Pvt. Dai Jones
George Coulouris Padre
Derrick de Marney - Pat
Miles Malleson - Mr. Windrush
Michael Trubshawe - Col. Panshawe
John Le Mesurier - Psychiatrist
Christopher Lee - Nazi Officer
David Lodge - Guard

Private's Progress was the Boulting Brothers satirical antidote to the stiff upper-lip productions of the 40s and 50s, this is more the province of a Carry On Marching. Naive student Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) leaves college to become a national serviceman, he flounders at officer's school and is reduced to the rank of private. Eventually Windrush is sent on a mission behind enemy lines with his shady platoon, they embark on an unofficial raid to liberate Nazi-acquired art treasures from a country castle. One of the great fighting platoons off British comedy, includes Terry-Thomas as the high-brow Major Hitchcock, Dennis Price in the role of Stanley’s commanding officer and Richard Attenborough as the scheming Private Cox, together they work some classic comedy manoeuvres.