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Private's Progress is a 1956 British comedy film based on the novel by Alan Hackney. It was directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting, from a script by John Boulting and Frank Harvey.
Plot.
During World War II, the young undergraduate Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael), is conscripted into the British Army. Unlike his friend Egan (Peter Jones), Windrush is a most reluctant soldier and struggles through basic training at Gravestone Barracks (Author Hackney spent the first year of his
. He continued working in television roles throughout his career, but it was his portrayal in the BBC television play "Traitor", of a character loosely based on Kim Philby, which earned him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1972.
In 1948, Le Mesurier worked on his first film, "Death in the Hand", a mystery in which he played the character Jack Mottram. He went on to appear in over 100 films, including "Private's Progress" (1955), "