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No Time For Sergeants DVD Andy Griffith
Plot: Star Andy Griffith’s comedic
timing is perfect in a role that helped make him a national celebrity. Griffith is Will Stockdale, a country bumpkin who is
drafted into the air force during the cold war. Sergeant King (Myron McCormick) is a lifer pleased with the ease and repetition
of his path, which ends abruptly with the arrival of the naive Southerner. King fumes and schemes in an effort to control
the company damage that derives from Stockdale’s bumblings and terminal curiousity. The company psychiatrist proves
no match for Stockdale’s backwoods wisdom, and death itself is defeated when Stockdale shows up to his own funeral in
one of the funniest scenes in the film. Griffith’s comic rendering of Stockdale is surpisingly three-dimensional, combining
intelligence and warmth with bizarre misconceptions about his place in the world as an army inductee. The supporting cast
is also excellent, including Don Knotts, Nick Adams, Benny Baker, and Jamie Farr.
Item #145
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