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    Private’s Progress (1956)

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    Upper-class innocent Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) has to interrupt his university education when he is called up in 1942 and falls in with a gang of spivs in the Army – including crafty Private Cox (Richard Attenborough).

    Stanley gets a posting to train as a Japanese interpreter but is contacted by his uncle, a Brigadier (Dennis Price) to join a secret operation which is, in fact, a scam to steal looted artworks from the Germans and sell them on to crooked art dealers.

    Terry-Thomas is terrific as the pompous Major who despairs that his men are “an absolute shower”.

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    Narrator
    E.V.H. Emmett
    Private Stanley Windrush
    Ian Carmichael
    Private Percival Henry Cox
    Richard Attenborough
    Brigadier Bertram Tracepurcel
    Dennis Price
    Major Hitchcock
    Terry-Thomas
    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
    Pat
    Derrick de Marney
    Mr Spottiswood
    Henry Longhurst
    Mr Windrush Sr
    Miles Malleson
    Catherine
    Sally Miles
    Gerald
    David King-Wood
    Colonel Fanshawe
    Michael Trubshawe
    Psychiatrist
    John Le Mesurier
    General Tomlinson
    Robert Raglan
    Major Schultz
    Christopher Lee
    Colonel Argent
    Basil Dignam
    Lance Corporal Parsons
    David Lodge
    Sidney
    Michael Ward
    General Von Lembeck
    Ludwig Lawinsky
    Miss Sugden
    Marianne Stone
    Colonel Lench
    Peter Stephens
    Face Ache
    Gerald Fox

    Director
    John Boulting

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