Private's Progress
The film that is respectfully dedicated to all those who got away with it !
Directed by John Boulting
Produced by Charter Film Productions, British Lion Film Corporation
A lighthearted British wartime comedy that celebrates cunning and camaraderie through the misadventures of soldiers learning to navigate military bureaucracy and corruption.
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
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