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NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS
May 27, 2017  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

TCM’s Memorial Day weekend marathon continues, featuring military-themed movies all day today, tomorrow, and Monday. But tonight, the film schedule takes a deliberate tack towards the lighter side, offering up a series of comedies as a uniform mini-marathon within the larger marathon. First up is 1958’s No Time for Sergeants, the film that actually began as an adaptation of the comic novel presented on live TV. In 1955, on The U.S. Steel Hour, Ira Levin – yes, the eventual author of Rosemary’s Baby – adapted the book for TV, starring Andy Griffith in a delightful comedy that moved quickly to Broadway, then became a motion picture. Most of the original Broadway cast, led by Griffith, showed up for this film version – including Don Knotts, a supporting actor who later called Griffith and offered to team up again for Griffith’s then-upcoming CBS comedy series, The Andy Griffith Show. Griffith never won an Emmy for that show, but Knotts did – plenty of them.

 
 
 
 
 
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