No Time for Sergeants (1958) |
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| Director(s) | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Producer(s) | Mervyn LeRoy, Alex Segal |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Aviation, Slapstick |
Featured Cast of No Time for Sergeants See More »
Andy Griffith
(as Pvt. Will Stockdale)
Nick Adams
(as Pvt. Ben Whitledge)
Murray Hamilton
(as Irving S. Blanchard)
Don Knotts
(as Cpl. John C. Brown)
Jean Willes
(as WAF Captain)
Dub Taylor
(as McKinney)
Malcolm Atterbury
(as Bus Driver Carrying Ap...)
Dick Crockett
(as Soldier in Bar Brawl)
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No Time for Sergeants (1958) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Mervyn LeRoy and Alex Segal.
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No Time for Sergeants (1958)
No Time for Sergeants Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Written by John Lee Mahin from a play by Ira Levin and a novel by Mac Hyman 1958/USA Warner Bros. First viewing/Netflix rental Will Stockdale: No excuse, sir! Andy Griffith comes off a bit more like Gomer Pyle in this one. There are some genuinely ... Read full article
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Sammy Jackson (no relation to Samuel L. Jackson), who would six years later star in short-lived mid-Sixties sitcom version of movie in the Andy Griffith part, appears as an uncredited inductee in a number of scenes.
A live TV production starring Andy Griffith had previously been telecast on The United States Steel Hour on Tuesday, March 15th, 1955 - No Time for Sergeants.
The stage production of "No Time for Sergeants" by Ira Levin opened at the Alvin Theater in New York on Thursday, October 20th, 1955 and ran for 796 performances. Andy Griffith received a 1956 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor.
This was Don Knotts' film debut. He met Andy Griffith when Knotts had a small part in Broadway's "No Time For Sergeants". Griffith remembered Knotts when he was looking for someone to play bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show. The two formed a lifelong friendship. After Knotts left Andy Griffith Show, he later made guest appearances on it and another Andy Griffith TV series, Matlock. In 2006, Griffith even broke the news of Knotts' passing to the media.
Mac Hyman based his all-time best-selling novel on his experiences growing up in Cordele, GA, and as a navigator in the Army Air Corps during World War II.