Customer Reviews

No Time For Sergeants (1955 TV Version, DVD)

5 star:		(83)
4 star:		(15)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Hands down one of the funniest movies ever made. Add my voice to the long and growing list of those calling for this comedy masterpiece to be released on DVD. To the powers that be: We're waiting...!

Griffith is one the most underrated actors of our time. Just watch this film "No Time for Sergeants" and then "A Face in the Crowd". Few actors could pull it off. Now, when the heck does this movie come out in DVD?

We have watched this movie many times. In fact this video is what turned our kids onto the "old" movies that they now like so well. Please tell me there are putting it on DVD!!! Kids love it. I love it. We pop it in any time we just want a good, healthy laugh.

Update 3 July 2010:

Well this movie is DONE. Warner Home Video just released the DVD, and they changed the aspect ratio to appease the low-end consumers and thus destroyed the movie.

Nice job. I am therefore changing my review to one of HATED IT. Yeah, the movie is one of my favorites, however the last thing I want to do now is encourage anyone to waste their money buying a poor product from Warner.

OK, I guess if you have never ever seen the film, I might say to get it---the movie is a classic. Better yet, Just borrow a copy and save your money.

The handling of this has been a complete disaster. What a shame.

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Prior subject (for VHS review): OK, enough already

Prior review:

Who do we need to contact to press for a QUALITY release of this movie on DVD? What is the hold up?

I have remembered this as one of my favorite films of all time. This is one of the most hilarious movies that Andy Griffith has has ever made. It is funny, sweet, tender, kind, and has all of the good things encountered in the best movies. I highly recommend this film and wish it would come out on DVD.

This is one I have had in my collection for years. Great fun from start to finish. Griffith is funny, but so are the co stars(Adams, McCormick, Knotts, etc.). Inspection scene is classic as is the pyschiatrist sketch. McCormick is hilarious as the tired old Air Force Staff Sgt. who assigns Griffith job as permanent latrine orderly(PLO!). Andy Griffith show fans will recognize that this was the first on-screen teaming of Knotts and Griffith. This one is full of memorable lines such as Pvt. Whitledge(Adams) telling Stockdale(Griffith)"Honest, Will, sometimes I wonder why they took ya in the draf at all!". Fans of MASH will recognize a young Jamie Farr in latter half of film. This film came out during a post Word War II and Post Korean War America and there is even a subplot thrown in involving the Yucca Flats testing site. I have never seen the tv version or the broadway play, but this film is just downright funny and all fans of Griffith or anyone that has been in the military should watch this one.

One of the very best comedies I have ever seen and surely in the top ten of all time! The casting is superb, with Andy Griffith (Will Stockdale) as the lead, who plays a country bumpkin military recruit, all the way down to the psychologist (name escapes me here) who psycho-analyzes Stockdale during his boot camp sojourn. Don Knotts is also superb as the manual dexterity analyst. This is also their very first instance of acting together.

Every scene is such a crackup in this movie it would be hard to decide which one was the funniest. One that I really liked is where the two MPs are running up the steps of the "Purple Grotto." A typical inter-service fight has broken out inside, which they are there to quell. Stockdale is blissfully walking out down the steps (after his sergeant and a comrade, who is out to do him harm (played by a very young Murray Hamilton, of "Jaws" fame - he was the mayor) have tried to get Stockdale drunk, but with no success. The two MP's ask Stockdale, "Is this the Purple Grotto?" To which he replies "Yes." He then adds, as the MPs are dashing inside, "Now there's two thirsty fellows for ya!" Words can't describe it.

For an old B/W movie, with no nudity scenes and not even a curse word, this production will show everyone what real characterization and movie directing is all about. Six stars in my book.

this is one of my favorite movies, with an all-star (for the time) cast.

Don Knotts, even though his part is small, is outstanding

i dont know who it was, but the shrink in this movie with andy griffith is also outstanding, that whole scene will have you rolling in your chair. However, this movie really needs a DVD release, with if we were lucky, deleted scenes included, that would be awesome.

everything else is out on DVD so whats the holdup?

do not buy this- this is not the MOVIE version of No time for sergeants-this is some stupid play on t.v. that is nothing like the movie and is terrible- what a rip off.

This movie was introduced to me by my grandfather The Late Reverend M. C. Griffin. He sat me in the chair next to him and made my daddy go get the video out of his closet. I initially loved the movie because it created one of my favorite sounds, my Pa Pa laughing histerically. He then gave me the video and i took it home and re watched it. This movie is ridiculous hilarious. I laugh everytime i see it. This has got to be one of the funniest movies i have ever seen. And the part that seals the deal on my last sentence is the scene where Will's dad make him fetch and get that book and read to the recruiter. That is dumb funny LoL Its a golden movie to have in anyones collection. I highly recommend it to EVERYONE that loves to laugh and those that dont. It NEEEEEEEDDDSSSS to be on DVD! really soon. Thanks

Lady G Out

peace *two fingers*