No Time for Sergeants

UPC: 883929109951

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Suitable for Children]

Summary: Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer Andy Griffith as bumptious Air Force draftee Will Stockdale. This TV version was soon afterward transformed into a Broadway play, and then a movie, again with Griffith in the lead. Brought to the Air Force base in handcuffs because his farmer father has been hiding his draft notices, good-natured Will becomes the target of ridicule for the other transcripts. Especially nasty is Private Irvin (Murray Hamilton), but Will is able to forgive him because he knows that Irvin is suffering from some mysterious disease called ROTC. Will's best pal is hot-headed private Ben (Nick Adams), who wants to be transferred to the Infantry and convinces Will to try for the same goal. Slowly becoming aware that the trusting, na?ve Will may prove to be a troublemaker, career sergeant King (Myron McCormick), who wants nothing more out of life than a little peace and quiet, tries to keep Stockdale out of mischief by appointing him "PLO" -- Permanent Latrine Orderly, a dubious distinction in which Will takes enormous pride. Later on, King tries to pull strings to get Will transferred, succeeding only in losing his sergeant's stripes. The story goes off on a zany tangent when Will and Ben find themselves on a crippled plane in flight. They manage to escape with their lives, but all evidence suggests that they've been killed in the plane's crash. Imagine the dismay of newly reinstated Sergeant King when Will and Ben show up in his office -- just as the entire base is gathered for a memorial service for the two "fallen heroes." Featured in a minor role as a "coordination officer" is Griffth's future TV cohort Don Knotts, while Sammy Jackson, who played Stockdale in a 1964 sitcom version of No Time for Sergeants, shows up in an unbilled bit. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Comedy

No Time for Sergeants

Format: DVD

Release Date: 05/04/2010

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 119 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: French,Spanish,English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- No Time for Sergeants
1. Credits [1:06]
2. Draft Board Man [7:17]
3. Irvin Takes Charge [3:42]
4. Whitledge Benjamin B [4:54]
5. Sgt King [2:38]
6. No Waves [3:02]
7. Provoking the Plowby [4:30]
8. Unhappy Airman [4:25]
9. Latrine Officer [4:45]
10. PLO Classification [2:56]
11. Captain's Visit [5:07]
12. Manually Dexterous [4:24]
13. Female Officer [3:15]
14. From Resistance to Transference [6:04]
15. Girls In General [1:55]
16. Eyes Put to the Test [1:00]
17. The Purple Grotto [4:41]
18. Toasting the Infantry [5:12]
19. Saluting the Colonel [4:00]
20. Time For No Sergeant [2:49]
21. Second Line of Defense [6:17]
22. Lost In the Blue Yonder [2:33]
23. Hello to Yucca Flats [4:04]
24. Goodbye to the Plane [4:48]
25. Two Tardy Heroes [1:57]
26. We Ain't Dead [5:22]
27. Password: Nightmare [5:15]
28. Buddies Again [3:13]
29. A Medal For Ben [2:28]

Craig Butler

While modern audiences may miss some of the references in No Time for Sergeants, that shouldn't get in the way of them enjoying this laugh riot of a film. Indeed, many who approach Sergeants skeptically will find themselves totally disarmed by its simple charms. After all, who hasn't seen more service comedies than he's care to count -- many of which use many of the same situations and variations on the same characters as can be found in Sergeants? But there's an air of freshness about the film, even many decades after its creation, so that even when county bumpkin Andy Griffith falls into a familiar fish-out-of-water situation, viewers will still find themselves amused. More than amused -- engaged. For that is Sergeant's secret weapon: it has a heart. Not a gooey, sappy one -- a pulsing, glad-to-be-alive, isn't life wonderful heart that comes across as real and sincere, rather than manufactured (even if its plotting COULD be called manufactured). Credit Mervyn LeRoy's deft direction and John Lee Mahin's laugh-a-minute screenplay, but reserve the lion's share of credit to Griffith's disarming, lovable portrayal. It is a role he was born to play and he shines throughout. The rest of the cast, including Nick Adams and Myron McCormick, are excellent -- but Griffith is superb. ~ Craig Butler, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Francis de Sales  Actor 
George Neise  Actor 
Ed Begley, Sr.  Actor 
James Millhollin  Actor 
Malcolm Atterbury  Actor 
Mary Scott  Actor 
John Close  Actor 
Ben Baker  Actor 
Margaret Mason  Actor 
Fred Coby  Actor 
Thomas Brown Henry  Actor 
Jack Mower  Actor 
Dick Wessel  Actor 
Dan Barton  Actor 
Peggy Hallack  Actor 
Tom McKee  Actor 
Verne Smith  Actor 
Robert Sherman  Actor 
Jamie Farr  Actor 
Sammy Jackson  Actor 
Charles Lane  Actor 
Rad Fulton  Actor 
Bob Stratton  Actor 
Ray Heindorf  Composer (Music Score) 
Mervyn LeRoy  Director 
Mervyn LeRoy  Producer 
John Lee Mahin  Screenwriter 
Andy Griffith  Actor 
Myron McCormick  Actor 
Nick Adams  Actor 
Murray Hamilton  Actor 
Howard I. Smith  Actor 
Will Hutchins  Actor 
Sydney Smith  Actor 
Don Knotts  Actor 
Jean Willes  Actor 
Bartlett Robinson  Actor 
Henry McCann  Actor 
Dub Taylor  Actor 
William Fawcett  Actor 
Raymond Bailey  Actor 

Country: USA