Private's Progress

Private's Progress
Original UK cinema poster
Directed byJohn Boulting
Screenplay byJohn Boulting
Frank Harvey
Based onPrivate's Progress
by Alan Hackney
Produced byRoy Boulting
StarringIan Carmichael
Richard Attenborough
Dennis Price
Terry-Thomas
CinematographyEric Cross
Edited byAnthony Harvey
Music byJohn Addison
Production
company
Charter Film Productions
Distributed byBritish Lion Films (UK)
Release date
  • 17 February 1956 (1956-02-17) (UK)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£161,069[1]
Box office£310,870 (UK)[2]

Private's Progress is a 1956 British comedy film directed by John Boulting and starring Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones, William Hartnell and Terry-Thomas.[3] The script was by John Boulting and Frank Harvey based on the novel of the same name[4] by Alan Hackney.

  1. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 359
  2. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p506
  3. ^ "Private's Progress (1956) - BFI". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012.
  4. ^ Hackney, Alan (1954). Private's Progress. Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571282579.