![]() ![]() A Georgia country boy, Will has no experience with life outside the mountains. All three versions of No Time for Sergeants celebrate Griffith's exuberant personality as channeled through the fresh-faced Private Will Stockdale. No Time for Sergeants allows Griffith to reprise the role he originated in the famous 1955 live television show, which was immediately adapted as a Broadway play. Although now considered an influential classic, Kazan's movie was a noted box office underperformer. It was also a breakout success for actor Andy Griffith, a folksy actor who had made his film debut the previous year in Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd, a cynical and prophetic tale of a television entertainer with political ambitions. ![]() Mervyn LeRoy's film was one of the most popular peacetime service comedies of the 1950s, taking its place beside Mister Roberts and Operation Mad Ball. ![]() ![]() 1958's No Time for Sergeants follows the adventures of a hillbilly Air Force draftee whose slow-witted honesty makes life miserable for his barracks sergeant. Written by John Lee Mahin from the play by Ira Levin and the novel by Mac HymanĮvery few years a hit movie puts a dent in the old adage that shows about rural bumpkins are box office poison. Starring Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Don Knotts. ![]()
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