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No Time for Sergeants (1958) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Mervyn LeRoy and Alex Segal.

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No Time for Sergeants (1958)

By Beatrice on Aug 28, 2016 From Flickers in Time

No Time for Sergeants Directed by Mervyn LeRoy Written by John Lee Mahin from a play by Ira Levin and a novel by Mac Hyman 1958/USA Warner Bros. First viewing/Netflix rental Will Stockdale: No excuse, sir! Andy Griffith comes off a bit more like Gomer Pyle in this one. ?There are some genuinely f... Read full article


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This was Don Knotts' film debut. He met Andy Griffith when Knotts had a small part in Broadway's "No Time For Sergeants". Griffith remembered Knotts when he was looking for someone to play bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show. The two formed a lifelong friendship. After Knotts left Andy Griffith Show, he later made guest appearances on it and another Andy Griffith TV series, Matlock. In 2006, Griffith even broke the news of Knotts' passing to the media.
A live TV production starring Andy Griffith had previously been telecast on The United States Steel Hour on Tuesday, March 15th, 1955 - No Time for Sergeants.
Sammy Jackson (no relation to Samuel L. Jackson), who would six years later star in short-lived mid-Sixties sitcom version of movie in the Andy Griffith part, appears as an uncredited inductee in a number of scenes.
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