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Release year: 1958

Storyline

Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin from Georgia who is drafted into the United States Air Force and is too dumb to realize that he is driving everyone around him crazy, no one more so than Sergeant King.

Top credits

Directors

Mervyn LeRoy

Writers

Cast

Andy Griffith — Pvt. Will Stockdale
Myron McCormick — Sgt. Orville C. King
Nick Adams — Pvt. Ben Whitledge
Murray Hamilton — Irving S. Blanchard

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Did you know

• This film was Don Knotts' debut. He met Andy Griffith when he played the same part in the Broadway play version of "No Time for Sergeants." When Griffith was preparing to film the TV series The Andy Griffith Show (1960), Knotts contacted him and suggested that he needed someone to play his deputy. Griffith agreed and Knotts was cast. The two formed a lifelong friendship. After Knotts left The Andy Griffith Show (1960), he later made guest appearances on both it and another later TV series that Griffith also starred in, Matlock (1986). In 2006, Griffith broke the news of Knotts' death to the media.

• The latrine scene in this film was the first time that toilets had been shown onscreen in a Hollywood film (predating the film Psycho (1960) by two years).

• The stage production of "No Time for Sergeants" by Ira Levin opened at the Alvin Theater in New York on Thursday, October 20, 1955, and ran for 796 performances. Andy Griffith received a 1956 Tony Award nomination for Distinguished Supporting or Featured Dramatic Actor.