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No Time for Sergeants [VHS] | ![No Time for Sergeants [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CTH898N0L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Andy Griffith, Nick Adams, Don Knotts, Murray Hamilton, Howard Smith
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: Video
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 4267
Format: Black White, NTSC, Widescreen, THX
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302418828
UPC: 085391119531
EAN: 9786302418828
ASIN: 6302418828
Release Date: July 22, 1994
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Andy Griffith burst to stardom with this surprisingly funny film adaptation of the Broadway comedy (by, of all people, Ira Levin of iRosemary's Baby/i fame). Griffith plays a hillbilly who is drafted into the army where, among other things, he has to wear shoes regularly for the first time. Griffith brings an engaging glee to the role of this likable bumpkin, whose happy-go-lucky demeanor is impervious to insult. Ask him to clean the latrines and he rigs the toilet seats to stand up and salute. The film follows him through basic training and into the paratroops, where he becomes an unlikely hero. A solid supporting cast includes Griffith's future sidekick, Don Knotts; Nick Adams; and, most notably, the hilariously sullen Myron McCormick. I--Marshall Fine/I
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 I Want the Real Movie March 3, 2010
R. L. MILLER (FT LAUDERDALE FL USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Many years ago my family went to the drive-in and saw the real "No Time For Sergeants". In it, Andy Griffith created the character who has been basically the same guy in three different settings. He started out in "Sergeants" as Private Will Stockdale, a lovably doofy Air Force enlisted man. The Most Famous Hillbilly In the World changed his name in the 1960's for the small screen as Sheriff Andy Taylor in "The Andy Griffith Show", and he was still the same guy in a different uniform. As a footnote, that series also kicked off the career of Ron Howard, the most unpretentious brilliant movie director who ever lived. Anyway, Stockdale/ Taylor morphed into an unlikely Atlanta lawyer named Ben Matlock. But as Bob Seger might have said, he was still the same. How do you take the same personna and keep it going, with only name and wardrobe changes? Here's a secret--it's necessary for your name to be Andy Griffith. Ignore all the other posts here who confuse him with Jim Nabors and Gomer Pyle. This is the original model--"...thuh best danged private in the whole danged Air Force." Unfortunately, my only copy is a VHS tape that I grabbed off the air from a cable superstation, commercials and all. But I dread the day my machine either croaks and can't be replaced, or worse yet, eats the tape. Is it too much to ask for them to do up a DVD version?
 Just what I wanted February 18, 2010
OKCfisherman (OKC OK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got the DVD version of NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS from Amazon.com. It was the original movie with Andy Griffith and Nick Adams. It was at a very reasonable price and was exactly what I wanted.
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br /Previously, I had ordered a DVD from another site. The other site had billed their DVD as being Andy Griffith in NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS. It was priced nearly three times higher than the Amazon DVD and was more like an old, very brief TV promo for the movie, with Andy Griffith giving highlights of the story. I was very disappointed with the other vendor, feeling they were being deceptive (who would legitimately ask nearly $40 for an old TV promo of a movie). The other vendor was theusefulebooks4u
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great comedy February 6, 2010
Pamela A. Shelton
I had been looking for this movie for a long time, I was afraid to order it without seeing the movie first because I was afraid the movie would have poor quailty. But it was great!! The sound and picture were better than I hoped.
Great Stuff February 3, 2010
Stanley (Seattle, WA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Really interesting to see Andy, the down home but cool dude sheriff of Mayberry, so early in his career that he is cast as a Gomer Pyle kind of character. Nuff said, watch and enjoy!
I'm glad to get a pressed DVD release but... January 31, 2010
calvinnme (Fredericksburg, Va)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
what exactly is the criteria these days for Warner Bros. putting films on DVD versus dumping them into the Warner Archive? In the last year this is one of the very rare pressed classic releases by Warner - or anyone else for that matter -while films that could have been part of a very sellable noir set such as Highway 301, Rancho Notorious, and Nora Prentiss get cheap burn jobs. I just don't get it. But I digress.
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br /This is really worth watching for two reasons. It is obviously a blueprint for the popular spin-off TV show "Gomer Pyle USMC" starring Jim Nabors in the part played here by Andy Griffith, and it is interesting to make comparisons between the two. Secondly, it really is part of a tribute to the great yet unappreciated range Andy Griffith had as an actor. Here he plays the yokel as well-meaning good guy, anxious to serve his country but just too friendly and green to fully comprehend the discipline he is under in training camp. He thinks it is an honor when the sergeant gives him latrine duty, and his version of the 21-gun salute when the latrine is inspected is truly hilarious. Watch this and then watch him play the yokel as bad guy in "A Face in the Crowd". Fortunately, "Face in the Crowd" got a proper release before this burn on demand craze got started. Of course, the long running TV show "The Andy Griffith Show" demonstrated that Griffith could play the wise man, being friendly when he could and tough when he had to be as he policed a largely friendly and peace-loving local population with individual residents that could get rowdy and mean as well as the occasional visitor with nefarious intentions.
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br /In conclusion, this is a very funny film and deserves to be in the collection of any classic film fan. Highly recommended.
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