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Writers:
Mac Hyman (novel)
Ira Levin (play) ...
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Release Date:
27 June 1958 (West Germany) more
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Plot:
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy -- no one more than Sgt. King. full summary | add synopsis
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No Time for Sergeants is my FAVORITE movie of all times! more (35 total)

Cast

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Andy Griffith ... Pvt. Will Stockdale
Myron McCormick ... Sgt. Orville C. King
Nick Adams ... Pvt. Benjamin B. 'Ben' Whitledge
Murray Hamilton ... Irving S. Blanchard
Howard Smith ... Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush
Will Hutchins ... Lt. George Bridges (pilot)
Sydney Smith ... Maj. Gen. Vernon Pollard
James Millhollin ... Maj. Royal B. Demming (psychiatrist)

Don Knotts ... Cpl. John C. Brown (Dexterity)
Jean Willes ... WAF captain
Bartlett Robinson ... Captain
Henry McCann ... Lt. Cover
Dub Taylor ... McKinney (draft board man)
William Fawcett ... Pa Stockdale
Raymond Bailey ... Base Colonel
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Additional Details

Runtime:
119 min
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1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Mac Hyman based his best selling novel on his experiences growing up in Cordele, GA, and as a navigator in the Army Air Corps during World War II. more
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Factual errors: Although the film is about the Air Force, the credits are superimposed over a picture of Army sergeant's chevrons. Air Force sergeant stripes are of a completely different design (like those worn by Master Sergeant King in the movie). more
Quotes:
Maj. Demming: Now then - your father. Living?
Will Stockdale: Yes, sir.
Maj. Demming: Do you get along with him okay?
Will Stockdale: Yes, sir.
Maj. Demming: Does he ever beat you?
Will Stockdale: [laughs] You bet!
Maj. Demming: Hard?
Maj. Demming: And how! Boy, there ain't nobody can beat like my pa can.
Maj. Demming: So this is where the antagonism comes from.
[chuckles]
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No Time for Sergeants is my FAVORITE movie of all times!, 17 September 2002
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Author: (dwlynn) from Atlatna, GA

I remember seeing it as a little girl and still try to watch it every time it airs. I even have it on tape. It is simple, clean, and hilarious. I love it because it makes me laugh each and every time I see it and it never gets old to me. The people that play the characters are perfect for their parts. Andy Griffith is a real southern man playing a simple southerner and he is superb! No one else could have done Will Stockdale better. I love his description of his first days in military service ("mashin' our tongues down with popsicle sticks...wompin' our knees with little rubber hammers.."); his duty as PLO - Permanent Latrine Orderly - to glean a favor from the Captain ("it was my aim to get it clean as that room where they gonna cut out yor heart"); buddy Ben; getting class-i-fied; Sgt. King "the best danged Sergeant in the whole danged Air Force"; and finally being a hero "air man".

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