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Sergeant Grimshawe: Shirley Eaton ... Mary Sage: Eric Barker ... Captain Potts: Dora Bryan ... Norah: Bill Owen ... Corporal Bill Copping: Charles Hawtrey ... Peter Golightly: Kenneth Connor ... Horace Strong: Kenneth Williams ... James Bailey: Terence Longdon ... Miles Heywood: Norman Rossington ... Herbert Brown: Gerald Campion ... Andy ...
With William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan. Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be.
- (3K)
- Comedy, War
- Gerald Thomas
- 1958-09-19
The new recruits are assigned to Sergeant Grimshaw (William Hartnell). Grimshaw will soon be retiring from the army and takes on a £50 bet with Sergeant O'Brien ( Terry Scott ) that his last bunch of squaddies will be his first champion platoon .
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Grimshaw is retiring from the army and takes on a £50 bet with Sergeant O'Brien that his last bunch of squaddies will be his first champion platoon. With beady-eyed inspection from Captain Potts and disgruntled support from Corporal Copping , Grimshaw decides to use some psychology and treat his charges kindly rather than simply shouting at them.
Sergeant Grimshaw is close to retirement. His last group of National Service recruits are about to join. They include newlywed Charlie Sage, separated from his bride by being called up on his wedding day. Grimshaw has bet his fellow officers that he can get his men through training with the highest honours and win the Star Squad prize.
Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are the prankish misfits who become the hilarious bane of Army Officers existence when he makes a bet he will turn them into ‘Star Squad’ Award soldiers—or bust!
Feb 22, 2015 · For six years Sergeant Grimshawe has been a training sergeant, but never the leader of a champion platoon. He accepts a bet from another sergeant that in the next intake, his last before retirement, his squad will pass out top.
