No Time for Sergeants Movie on TCM

Watch the classic 1958 movie No Time for Sergeants this Tuesday, June 22 at 8 pm on TCM channel. The movie is about a farm boy who joins the Air Force.

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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. 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. 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. Although now considered an influential classic, Kazan’s movie was a noted box office underperformer.

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. All three versions of No Time for Sergeants celebrate Griffith’s exuberant personality as channeled through the fresh-faced Private Will Stockdale. A Georgia country boy, Will has no experience with life outside the mountains. His ignorance of slick everyday chicanery causes him to be branded a hick and presumed to be stupid. But Stockdale has a kind heart and good moral judgment. Like Al Capp’s Li’l Abner, he’s honest to a fault.