Blindgänger der Kompanie

Originaltitel: No Time for Sergeants

1958
Approved
1 Std. 59 Min.

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7,5/10

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Nick Adams, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Myron McCormick, and Jean Willes in Blindgänger der Kompanie (1958)

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Will Stockdale ist ein Landei, das zur Luftwaffe eingezogen wurde und zu dumm, um zu erkennen, dass er alle um sich herum in den Wahnsinn treibt, niemanden mehr als Sergeant King.Will Stockdale ist ein Landei, das zur Luftwaffe eingezogen wurde und zu dumm, um zu erkennen, dass er alle um sich herum in den Wahnsinn treibt, niemanden mehr als Sergeant King.Will Stockdale ist ein Landei, das zur Luftwaffe eingezogen wurde und zu dumm, um zu erkennen, dass er alle um sich herum in den Wahnsinn treibt, niemanden mehr als Sergeant King.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

4623

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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No Time For Sergeants: Captain

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No Time For Sergeants: Captain

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No Time For Sergeants: Draft Dodger

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No Time For Sergeants: Fight

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No Time For Sergeants: Latrine

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The latrine scene is the first time toilets have been shown onscreen in a Hollywood movie. (This predates Psycho, 1960, by two years.)

Patzer
The movie has Will and Ben being drafted into the Air Force and seeking transfer into the Army infantry. At the time the movie was made, by law draftees were automatically assigned to the Army for two years (e.g., Elvis); the Air Force has never had to use the draft since it became a separate branch of the service in 1947. The original novel and play that the movie is based on did have Will drafted into the Army during WW II and seeking to transfer to what was then the Army Air Corps, but the film was set in 1958, when interservice transfers were no longer being done.

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Maj. Demming: Do you get along alright with your mother?
Will Stockdale: No, sir, I can't hardly say that I do...
Maj. Demming: Oh, I see. She's very strict with you; she's always hovering over you, hmm?
Will Stockdale: No, sir, just the opposite.
Maj. Demming: Oh, she's never there?
Will Stockdale: That's right.
Maj. Demming: And you, uh, you resent this neglect, don't you?
Will Stockdale: Well, no, sir. I don't resent nothin'.
Maj. Demming: Ah, come now, son. Now don't be bashful - that's a common situation. Does, uh, she beat you?
Will Stockdale: Naw!
Maj. Demming: [he chuckles] Oh, so defensive. Well, it's not easy to talk about your mother, is it?
Will Stockdale: No sir, see, she died when I was born.

Crazy Credits
During a ceremony to Will Stockdale and Benjamin Whitledge, a radio announcer mentions Operation Prometheus, (that Will Stockdale jumped out of and pulled Ben Whitledge out with him, to parachute to the ground) mentions privates Stockdale and Whitledge's names. Stockdale and Whitledge (in unison) each ask saying their last-name Stockdale and Whitledge? The radio announcer answers back "Yes, Stockdale and Whitledge."

Verbindungen
Followed by No Time for Sergeants (1964)

Soundtracks
When My Dream Boat Comes Home
(uncredited)
Written by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin
First tune played at the Purple Grotto

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"The Best Dang Sergeant In The Whole Dang Ahr Force"

For those of you who know Andy Griffith best as the country wise sheriff of Mayberry or as the slick country lawyer Ben Matlock it might come as a surprise that Griffith got his first big career break playing that most ingenuous of military draftees Will Stockdale in No Time For Sergeants first on Broadway and then in this film version. Griffith is such a hick he makes Gomer Pyle look as sophisticated as Noel Coward.

Stockdale is one of those people who glides through life while chaos erupts all around him. Because his father William Fawcett had kept his draft letters from him, when the Air Force finally does come to get him. The man whom the chaos effects the most is his sergeant at the classification center played by Myron McCormick in the best world weary tradition he can muster.

Stockdale's best friend is Nick Adams, a kid from a military tradition family who wants the Army Infantry and not the Air Force and bemoans his fate through most of the film. He convinces Griffith of the fact that the infantry does the real fighting and everyone else just helps out occasionally. Like many other things Griffith takes them to heart and repeats them verbatim always at the wrong time. It's the heart of the humor in No Time For Sergeants.

No Time For Sergeants ran for 796 performances on Broadway during the 1955-57 season and Griffith, McCormick, Don Knotts, and James Milhollin all repeat their roles from Broadway. This not the Andy Griffith Show is the first time Knotts and Griffith work together. Knotts plays a corporal at the classification center administering the manual dexterity test and how Griffith solves it is Gordian Knot like. But his session with psychiatrist James Millhollin is the funniest thing in the film.

No Time For Sergeants is one of the best military comedies ever done on stage and screen. Do not miss it if broadcast.