Editing Private's Progress (section)

{{Short description|1956 British film by John Boulting}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Private's Progress
| image          = Private's Progress - 1956 poster.jpg
| caption        = Original UK cinema poster
| director       = [[John and Roy Boulting|John Boulting]]
| screenplay     = John Boulting<br />[[Frank Harvey (English screenwriter)|Frank Harvey]]
| based_on       = {{Based on|''Private's Progress''|[[Alan Hackney]]}}
| producer       = [[John and Roy Boulting|Roy Boulting]]
| starring       = [[Ian Carmichael]]<br />[[Richard Attenborough]]<br />[[Dennis Price]]<br />[[Terry-Thomas]]
| cinematography = [[Eric Cross (cinematographer)|Eric Cross]]
| editing        = [[Anthony Harvey]]
| music          = [[John Addison]]
| studio         = <!-- Redirects to Boulting brothers article -->Charter Film Productions
| distributor    = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}}
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|1956|02|17|UK}}
| runtime        = 95 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = £161,069<ref name="money">Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p. 359</ref>
| gross          = £310,870 (UK)<ref>Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p. 506</ref>
}}
'''''Private's Progress''''' is a 1956 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[John and Roy Boulting|John Boulting]] and starring [[Richard Attenborough]], [[Dennis Price]], [[Terry-Thomas]] and [[Ian Carmichael]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Private's Progress (1956) - BFI |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b38d979 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712032629/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b38d979 |archive-date=2012-07-12 |work=BFI}}</ref> The script was by John Boulting and [[Frank Harvey (English screenwriter)|Frank Harvey]], based on the novel of the same name<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hackney |first=Alan |title=Private's Progress |publisher=[[Faber and Faber]] |year=1954 |isbn=9780571282579}}</ref> by [[Alan Hackney]].