Private's Progress (1956)
Private's Progress

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Directed by: 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.
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Review (1)
John Chard (Rated: 7)
What a shower you really are.
Upper class toff Stanley Windrush gets called to join the Army half way thru his university eduction, keen he may be, but he really is a fish out of water.
Brought to us from the greatly talented Boulting brothers, is this most adored of British comedies. It's fis...
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