Andy Griffith at the prime of his career. No Time for Sergeants is a movie that will live forever. Andy Griffith was born to play Wil Stockdale. This movie made us all feel as if we were living back during WWII. Hilarious, clean comedy that you will never see come out of Hollywood again. The actors don't exist anymore.
shareYes this is a classic comedy! Also Andy Griffith also did the play of this and performed it live. I remember seeing this done on AMC back in the 90's when it was filmed. It was really interesting to hear about. This was before AMC altered and switched to the kind of programming that they have now on there. This was also before AMC went to commercials on their network as well.
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" I remember seeing this done on AMC back in the 90's when it was filmed..."
It was done in 1958. What are you talking about?
Yes I know that the movie was made back in 1958. What I am talking about is that in the early 90's all AMC would show on their network were movies from the 1930's on up to the 70's. it was not until around the late 90's like 1998 I think it was that AMC had commercial breaks during the Movues. Their old method of showing a movie without commercial breaks stopped because AMC wanted money and to show more current films on there than before.
You do see some of the classic films but not all of them though is what I mean. If you want to watch classics tune into Turner Classic Movies. They show all of the classics like aMC use to.
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AMC used to earn enough as one of the host of basic channels on cable, even though they did not run any commercials. They did this by using movies that were very inexpensive to license or free because they were public domain.
However, this guy from Atlanta named Turner bought up the rights on those movies. I think he had a plan to popularize colorization, because Turner Network Television initiated colorized movies starting with "A Miracle on 34th Street." Colorization died an ignominious death and we seldom see it anymore.
In the meantime, Turner became a convert to keeping "classic" movies classic. He started his own classic movie channel and continued buying up rights to old movies. Soon, AMC was priced out of the market for showing commercial free movies while charging only basic cable rates.
TCM became an upgrade channel. It is not a premium like HBO, Showtime, or even STARZ, but they do charge extra. AMC was forced to start carrying commercials, creating reality shows, and sometimes running really good independent series.
We still get our classic movies and I watch TCM, but if I even go to a cocktail party hosted by TCM, I will throw a drink in Ted Turner's hypocritical mug (if he's still alive).
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NTFS is a classic comedy from the old school. I'm not even sure that school exists any more.
shareThis movie is the embodiment of the almost extinct genre of film known as military humor. Back in the 50’s there were a lot of B movies and a few A’s which poked fun at military life.
At the time most adult males had served in the military or had brothers or close cousins who had been in uniform. Most of these people knew people in the military who were like these characters so they could relate to the people and the situation. I used to watch this movie with my dad back in the 70’s and he would laugh through the whole movie and tell me funny stories about some of the characters he served with.
Today when this movie is on I sit and watch it just so I can relive those moments.